Here is a NEW Interview with Sam Heughan from USA Today
From USA Today:
Droughtlander is nearly over, but don’t expect everything to be rugged sex scenes and Scottish fairy tales.
The end of Season 2 of Outlander left viewers slightly heartbroken as Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) were torn apart. Jamie sent a pregnant Claire tumbling back to the future through the standing stones instead of facing near-certain death at the Battle of Culloden.
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Season 3 of Outlander, premiering on Starz Sept. 10, (8 ET/PT), is “an epic season, I think it’s our best yet,” Heughan told USA TODAY as filming for Season 3 wrapped earlier this year.
Though the season is shaping up to be an impressive one, fans should brace for more hardship before any steamy reunions of the lovers, now separated by more than 100 years and an ocean.
“The title is voyager and its definitely that,” he says. “The journey picks up from end of Season 2, Jamie sends Claire back from the stones, and goes off to the Battle of Culloden, essentially to die. History says that Culloden was a great defeat.”
amie doesn’t expect to make it through the fight, the final bloody confrontation between the Jacobite uprising and the British crown that effectively ended the Scottish clan system. As readers of Diana Gabaldon’s novels know, Jamie manages to survive, and the scene isn’t pretty.
“He’s lost everything he loves and his unborn child, family, close friends and allies,” Heughan says. “It is really a great journey that he goes on to 20 years later, and reappears as if by magic back into his life unexpectedly.”
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Even in the book “Voyager”, Jamie appears to have changed. He is more in charge, more careful. Deep down he is Jamie – but he has that well sheltered.