It’s easy to recommend Ronald D. Moore’s series “Outlander,” based on Diana Gabaldon’s seven bestselling novels (25 million copies sold worldwide), which just wrapped up Season One on Starz, to anyone who likes a bodice-ripping historical romance.
The time-travel plot certainly sounds like femme fiction: after World War II, British nurse Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and her PTSD husband Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies) go on vacation in the Scottish highlands, where one of his ancestors used to fight the 18th century Jacobite rebellion, to rekindle their marriage. It’s working, until she disappears after touching an ancient rune stone in a forest clearing. She’s whisked back in time to 1745, where she encounters the very same Captain “Black Jack” Randall (Menzies, natch) and falls in with a clan of Highlanders who are fiercely opposed to the British.
In the days since “Outlander” concluded its Season 1 run on Starz, Sam Heughan has found his work the subject of much critical acclaim.
Heughan had challenging scenes all season long in the freshman series. The final two episodes of the drama, though, were full of emotionally gut-wrenching material, as viewers saw his character, Jamie Fraser, not just raped and tortured, but attacked psychologically by Black Jack Randall, who took sadistic pleasure in dismantling the Highlander’s spirit.
Outlander fans, take a deep breath. Jamie’s ex has been cast.
French actress Margaux Chatelier will appear opposite Sam Heughan in Outlander season two as Jamie’s former love Annalise de Marillac, E! News has confirmed. We know, we know, you will go down with the Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie ship. (And so will we, so make room on that ship, OK?!)
TVLine first reported the news of Chatelier’s casting.
When we chatted with executive producer Ronald D. Moore after that intense finale, he teased the Starz’s hit’s new Parisian setting after Jamie and Clare set off to France.
Read more about the other actor and his character after the jump!
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