Here is a NEW Interview with Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe From Radio Times
From RT:
Droughtlander has finally drawn to a close. The hit time-travelling series Outlander returns for season 6 on 6th March – and excitingly, the first episode is feature-length. That’s a little gift to fans “for being so patient and waiting so long for the series to come back” Caitriona Balfe, who plays Claire Fraser, tells RadioTimes.com.
The season begins with a flashback to Jamie’s time at Ardsmuir Prison, which we last saw in season 3. It’s a clever way of introducing a major new character, Jamie’s fellow inmate and staunch Protestant Tom Christie (Mark Lewis Jones) who, in the present time, brings his family to live on Fraser’s Ridge in North Carolina.
Those Ardsmuir scenes, shot in Glen Coe in Scotland, are “really epic”, says Heughan. “You can see the Buachaille Etive Mòr, the big mountain, in the background.”
The flashback also offers a fresh angle on a past storyline. “I really enjoy that about Outlander,” enthuses Heughan. “And I think we might get more of that. We’re really starting to pull upon other books, storylines, narratives. That’s what is so great about our show – we can draw upon our past.
“For Jamie, the way I played it the first time, he’s just been through the Battle of Culloden, he thought he was going to die; he’s shut off, he’s living in the memory of Claire. And then to revisit that [in season 6], but slightly adapt it, he’s suddenly forced into being receptive and being a leader of men again.
“It’s not something when I first played that time period that I even knew had happened. I love that. I think it’s really cool for the viewers.”
The Christie family – Tom and his young-adult children Malva (Jessica Reynolds) and Allan (Alexander Vlahos) – bring “such a different vibe” to Fraser’s Ridge.
She’s full of praise for “incredible” newcomer Reynolds. “Claire sees a lot of herself in Malva and they form a really strong bond,” explains Balfe. “But things aren’t always what they seem, and it gets very complicated.”
Likewise, Jamie – who practices his Catholic faith in a very different way – is grappling with the intractable Tom. “Jamie has to use his whole toolbox of manipulation and putting him down or threatening him,” says Heughan. “He can see that Tom is a danger: he uses fear to control men, and that’s not what Jamie believes in. It begins to unravel the Frasers’ popularity on the Ridge.”
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