Here is a NEW Interview with Tobias Menzies from The Columbus Dispatch
From Dispatch:
Come Sunday, ″Outlander″ will launch its third season as one of the most popular TV series worldwide.
When it made its debut in 2014 on the premium-cable network Starz, however, it was just another freshman show adapted from yet another book — albeit a lush, sexy and romantic one with a trio of gorgeous, charismatic leads in Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan and Tobias Menzies.
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″I don’t think any of us saw it coming,″ Menzies said recently by phone from his home in London. ″We hoped it would do well, but how much people have taken to it has been really fun to see.
″Everyone asks why it’s so popular, and that’s a hard question to answer,” he said. “I think it’s quite classic in its structure. It’s a love story, but there’s a lot of thwarted love in our story. The story plays with the idea of that special person, the idea that there is ‘the one’ who’s out there for us. I think the show gives people something to aspire to and a lot of hope.
″And then you’ve got the adventure, you’ve got time-travel and you’ve got all the history that’s involved,″ Menzies continued. ″So there are many elements that make for a pretty varied and interesting story mix.″
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Tobias is right … the show does give us the idea that there is someone out there for us and it gives us a lot of hope. It is also the reason why, while we’re watching the show, we want to believe that it is really happening. That is what a love story does to romantic people especially when actors perform so well. Also, there is a little bit of everything in Outlander.