Starz finally stopped teasing us Outlander fans and dropped a full trailer, along with a few images, for the highly anticipated second half of Season 1. It looks like an action-packed, sexy and intensely dramatic set of episodes await us. Watch the new trailer below.
Anyone excited for Jamie’s sister, Jenny, to be introduced into the show?! She’s one of my favorite characters in the book series, and I can’t wait to see the interactions between Jenny and Jamie and Claire when they meet. The trailer also gives some flashes on some keys scenes, which I won’t spoil since many have yet to read the books.
However, stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan discussed some of what’s to come at a TCA panel yesterday. For instance, the first new episode will be in Jamie’s perspective. Producer Ronald D. Moore said that it’s the right moment to pivot out of Claire’s POV. The upcoming “spanking scene” was also brought up. The controversial scene involves Jamie punishing his wife for endangering him and his men.
“We all knew a lot of people would be very interested in how we would tackle it,” Balfe said. “First and foremost, we have to remember that you have to look at it in the mind-frame of 1743. It’s very hard as a modern person to see this is OK under any circumstances. But in 1743, this was a very justified form of punishment that a husband would [dole] out.”
“But we wanted to not take it lightly,” she continued. “We wanted to approach it very respectfully. We talked a lot about it, we met a few times, we choreographed it quite well. When it came to the day, we tried to give it the respect it deserved.”
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“For Claire she finds it very hard to sort of wrap her mind around this man that she’s fallen in love with, what he’s about to do.” Balfe said. “What I loved about it was that we took time afterwards, that … in the context of their marriage, they had to figure out a way to get past this.”
“Ultimately, Jamie, whether or not he believes it’s the right thing to do, he just knows he has to do it too teach her a lesson — that’s the way he’s been brought up,” Heughan added.
[via The Wrap]
Outlander comes back to Starz on April 4, 2015. In the meantime, stare at the lovely new images from the show in the gallery below:
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