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The cover features a beautiful still of everyones favorite couple, Claire and Jamie, as seen below.
When you translated that to television, it had the effect of just teasing the audience.
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We felt like we had to show it.
When you translated that to television, it had the effect of just teasing the audience.
We felt like we had to show it.
Random House
In researching the history of the battle, Moore discovered that the whole clash took only about twenty minutes.
So his initial thought was to recreate it in real time.
He explains, Wed go beginning to end and frame it through the eyes of Jamie and Murtagh.
The first draft of the script I wrote did exactly that.
Going back to the draft, Moore assessed the key moments that needed to be shown in Jamies story.
Thats essentially what we ended up doing.
It was about capturing Jamie in a very intimate way in this huge landscape.
We couldnt lose track of what his story was.
He had a leaders jeopardy on himnot just his own survival but the survival of his troop.
You dont do that battle sequence by yourself, he enthuses.
I loved their work ethic and their human and creative talent.
They were on their feet fighting for days, he details.
It was just an exhausting, mammoth task for them, and they were terrific.
Their work ethic was outstanding.
In particular, Maher has high praise for their climactic fight.
It was the climax of this piece.
We set out to make it look like it was sunset.
We blocked it roughly with Sam and Tobias, but it was an open ending.
That was something Im pretty sure Tobias came up with on the day.
They did it in one or two takes.
I saw it and I loved it.
I was like, Oh my God, thats perfect.
For Moore, crosscutting the parallel stories across time became the model for the first half of the season.
Emotionally, I think, Claire feels very imprisoned in those sequences, he muses.
I thought Caitriona was fantastic in the scene in the university with the dean.
But through her smiling, polite gentility, he can see how shes seething with discontent.
How she hates being locked into this world.
I really loved the way Claire and Frank walked through the house, being a little playful.
I really wanted the audience to be rooting for them.
And that breaks it.
Copyright 2019 by Tara Bennett.
The Making of Outlander: The Official Guide to Seasons Three & Fourwill be available beginning Oct. 15.
