Here’s a bts video interview side by side with footage from Outlander Season 7 of Joey Phillips and Izzy Meikle driving a horse and cart
A bts glimpse of Sam Heughan and Charles Vandervaart on filming Jamie and William on the battlefield
Another clip is after the jump.
New short clip of Richard Rankin and Sophie Skelton talking about working with child actors on set
New photo of Blake Johnston Miller, who plays Jemmy on Outlander in Season 7
Source: Blake Johnston Miller’s IG Story
Outlander’s Executive Producer Maril Davis discusses the second half of Season 7
From TV Guide:
Fans of the early seasons, prepare to get excited.
They say you can’t go home again, and the Frasers are about to find out if that’s true.
In the Season 7, Part 1 finale of Starz’s Outlander, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) find themselves back on the shores of Scotland and an ocean away from the American Revolution. Standing on the deck of the ship bringing them home for the first time since they left in Season 3, the Frasers and Young Ian (John Bell) are all smiles in the mid-season finale’s last shot. But executive producer Maril Davis is already bracing fans for what could be a rollercoaster homecoming.
“Home has changed, literally,” Davis tells TV Guide. “Their expectations, what they are bringing with them and their fears about walking back into a place they haven’t been to in so long really sets the table. In this case, there are some surprises waiting for them –– some good, some bad.”
The reason for the Frasers’ return is to bring home the body of Jamie’s second cousin, Brigadier General Simon Fraser (Angus Macfadyen), who was killed at the Second Battle of Saratoga in 1777. While the mission is a sad one, coming home is what Claire and Jamie had planned to do after their home at Fraser’s Ridge burned down. But they were detoured when Jamie was conscripted into the Continental Army.
Surprises may await them when Outlander returns in 2024, but first they will reunite with some familiar faces. Before Season 7 even premiered, Starz announced a slew of returning guest stars including Young Ian’s parents –– his father, Ian Murray (Steven Cree), and his mother Jenny (played by Kristin Atherton, who takes over the role from Laura Donnelly). Perhaps more than anyone, Young Ian has evolved the most since he last saw his parents, something Davis says will inspire one of the most unforgettable reunions.
“When you think about how much has happened to Young Ian since then, his adoption into the Mohawk and where he has come as a character, he has gone from boy to man,” she says. “For his mother to see him now as a man, we will see that it is very emotional for her and for him. And there was also Jamie’s promise to Jenny to bring Young Ian back home and what that meant.”
Outlander Season 7, Pt. 2: Everything We Know…
Here are new UHQ stills (Part II) from Outlander episode 7×07 ‘Turning Points’ (Mid Season Finale).
Outlander Executive Producer Maril Davis for Parade Magazine on Episode 7×08: Turning Points
From Parade:
Today’s episode of Outlander marks the mid-season finale, but it is also the last episode of 2023—the Droughtlander begins—until the second half of Season 7 airs in 2024. But the good news is that it is brimming with goodies that includes all our main characters—Jamie (Sam Heughan), Claire (Caitríona Balfe), Brianna (Sophie Skelton), Roger (Richard Rankin), Young Ian (John Bell) and William (Charles Vandervaart).
“The Jamie and Claire storyline isn’t so much a cliffhanger as it’s a start of a next chapter, and it leaves them, I think, in a good place,” executive producer Maril Davis tells Parade in this exclusive interview about the mid-season finale. “Whereas Brianna and Roger is more of a cliffhanger. We don’t know what will happen with their son Jemmy’s storyline in the second half of the season. I’m so excited for people to see that back half, because you know the first half was so good, but the back half is, in my mind, even better.”
The decision to greenlight an eighth season of Outlander hadn’t been made when the producers and writers were putting together Season 7 —which was supersized to 16 episodes after season 6 had to be shortened due to COVID—but a lot of thought and consideration went into the season in case it turned out to be the final one.
“This season just came together so magically,” Davis continues. “Part of it was we were all back together and that felt really wonderful. But also, this season is so jampacked because going into it and not realizing that there was going to be an eighth season, thinking it could potentially be our last, we just were like, ‘OK, let’s use all the material we have left and try to just get everything in.’
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Sneak peek video clip entitled ‘Patients’ from Outlander Episode 7×08 (‘Turning Points’), Midseason Finale. This clip features Caitríona Balfe as ‘Claire Fraser’ and Joey Phillips as ‘Denzell Hunter’
From Glamour:
Update, Thursday, October 10: Outlander concludes the first half of its seventh season on Friday, August 11. And based on everything that happened in the penultimate episode, a lot is going to change in 1777 and 1980. The midseason finale, titled “Turning Points,” sees Jamie (Sam Heughan) fighting in the pivotal Second Battle of Saratoga; meanwhile, in the 20th century, Roger (Richard Rankin) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) search for Jemmy after he was kidnapped by Bree’s coworker Rob Cameron.
“The realization that Jem is missing and what Bree and Roger are going to do about it is going to come to a head,” executive producer Maril Davis tells Glamour. “They’re at a turning point as well as Jamie and Claire (Caitríona Balfe). Obviously, that’s the name of the episode.”
Speaking of Jamie, Davis says that his greatest fear is seeing William across enemy lines and the conflict he has between fighting for his daughter in the America she will know and not wanting to see his son across the barrel of a gun. “In this episode we’re going to potentially see that come to fruition,” Davis says.
But when we last saw Jamie, he was lying on the ground, unconscious. We know he can’t be dead, but just how serious his injuries are remains to be seen. “He’s going to make it, let’s put it that way,” Davis says with a laugh. “Listen, Claire can always stitch that guy together. He has nine lives. I think he’s going to be okay.”
