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Which is sort of the ultimate defeat.The fifth season of “Outlander” has been full of big moments, from the death of Murtagh (Duncan Lacroix) and Roger (Richard Rankin) being hanged, to Bree (Sophie Skelton) getting justice and Jamie (Sam Heughan) facing death from infection. He is being Claire so that Claire would never be the same for Jamie again. Gets Jamie to say Claire’s name and almost puts on this feminine voice. Out of that came the idea that he embodies Claire in a way, especially in that last sequence where he undoes his hair and He can contaminate who Claire is for Jamie, then that would be a way to unpick this man. She is his foundation and so he intuits that if he can contaminate that relationship, if I liked the idea that Jack understands that Jamie is built on Claire. He was trying to unpick who the essence of Jamie was. I wanted to be more layered than that, a bit more existential - that To have a strong, very focused and emotional target for Jack, so that it wasn’t just an episode about a man torturing another man. We collaborated a lot on fine tuning what exactly Jack was trying to do to Jamie and how he did it. Those last two episodes probably involved the most conversation that the writers and Sam and I had. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation. Heughan is in the season’s final pair of episodes, Tobias Menzies, who plays Black Jack, is riveting. I think that’s the tragedy of the piece.”Īs compelling as Mr.
Heughan, who insisted that the story ramifications would “If every episode was the same - Jamie to the rescue, or the Claire and Jamie story - that would get boring very quickly,” said Mr. It was definitely clear for everybody that this was going to very emotionally deep places. It wasn’t the usual vibe where you shoot a scene and then you joke aroundĪnd then you shoot the next take. Of the way it addressed sexual assault, it was “an important episode of television because it takes the time to fully explore what recovery actually looks like and understands that it’s by no meansīoth Sam Heughan, who plays Jamie, and Anna Foerster, who directed this season’s final two hours (as well as the now famous wedding episode from the season’s first half), spoke about the difficulty of Of Jamie, the show’s male hero, by the villain Black Jack Randall. “Shock and horror are legitimate feelings to experience when you’re watching a story,” said Ron Moore in a recent interview about the Season 1 finale of Starz’s “Outlander.” And it was hard not to feel both emotions while watching “To Ransom a Man’s Soul,” in which we see in flashback the brutalization
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