New Sam Heughan and Ron D. Moore interview
From Condé Nast Traveler
If you’ve missed the first eight episodes of season one of Outlander, here’s what you need to know: Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) jumps from a post-WWII second honeymoon in Inverness with her upstanding English husband to 1743, where she falls into the rugged Highlands embrace of be-kilted, Lallybroch-raised Jamie MacKenzie Fraser (Sam Heughan).
“Those days when you’re riding through the Scottish landscape and you’re on a horse and you’re seeing snow-covered peaks, it’s just magical,” says native Scotsman Heughan. “You’re taken by the beauty and kind of feel like no one’s every been there before. You don’t have to do anything, imagine anything as an actor. It’s all done for you.”
Showrunner Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) also credits the particular character of Scotland. “It’s gorgeous country, and the light is something we talk about a lot,” he says. “We kept going to places we felt we had never seen, had never rented to anybody. There are a lot of treats out there.”
