NEW photos and video of Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe for Entertainment Weekly

NEW photos and video of Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe for Entertainment Weekly

Breaking news: Sam Heughan swings an ax and cuts down a huge tree in season 4 of Outlander!

Okay, so maybe there were three or four guys standing by with hard hats and chainsaws to lend a cutting edge. But in the end, it was ultimately Heughan who brought down a tree while the cameras were rolling. “It was kind of fun,” Heughan tells EW in its latest Outlander cover story. “Jamie’s very comfortable in the outdoors.”

That’s good because he and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) get a heckuva lot of it. In the new season that begins Nov. 4, the Frasers make their way from a Georgia beach to the Blue Ridge Mountains, where they’ll begin a very important chapter in their very sexy and oh-so-complicated lives.

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“Throughout the last three seasons, we’ve had them discover each other, go through this honeymoon period, and then try to establish themselves a home,” explains Heughan. “This is an opportunity to really ground themselves and find a home together. Certainly, for Jamie, it’s been something that he’s desperately wanted for a long time. He’s always wanted to be the Laird, have his family and settle down. Claire has finally come back to him and now they get this opportunity. Of course, it is Outlander so things don’t run smoothly. But this season is really setting up the years to come. We’re really establishing Fraser’s Ridge and this new world.”

More over at EW