We still have to wait a lot before the third season of “Outlander” finally airs on Starz. The show is still in production, and it seems to us that the star – Sam Heughan is having some trouble while filming certain scenes.
We feel bad for Sam… Third season of Outlander promises to bring wonderful things to watch. The scenery will be amazing as the show will tour Scotland and South Africa, and hopefully, make us travel with our heroes.
The teaser for season 3 of Outlander was incredible and it puts water in our mouth. If you thought the shooting was done in the best conditions imaginable for actors and team members, you were wrong. One scene will remain engraved in the memory of Sam Heughan.
The author of the “Outlander” novel series on which this show is based on, Diana Gabaldon, recently spoke about season 3. As we already know, the filming is ongoing, but some scenes involve Jamie, Heughan’s character on a ship. In one scene, we see Jamie throwing up because he got seasick, but it seems that life is imitating art, as Heughan told Gabaldon that he was also starting to feel sick.
“They have these incredible full-sized ships with hydraulics on set which make them pitch and yaw like real ones. Sam had to throw up for one scene as it’s no spoiler to say that Jamie Fraser gets seasick,” Gabaldon previewed. “He was standing there with a page of script in his hand looking more than disheveled, and he said to me he thought he really was going to be sick.”
To make this scene more realistic, the actor had to hold an egg white mixture in his mouth which he would vomit when the time came. Well, the scene needed to be shot multiple times, so the actor eventually got really sick.
Gabaldi said that Sam had told her “They gave me green-dyed egg whites with the most disgusting vanilla essence I ever had, and I had to keep this mixture in my mouth until I got it, It is time to vomit. ”
Poor guy, this surely wasn’t easy… The author also added “Sure, they shot the scene again and again and around the sixth time, Sam looked at the glass of egg whites and said, ‘F ** k my life.’ The scene was not all glamorous. ”
Even though Heughan might not have the best memory of the upcoming season, fans are definitely looking forward to the third season of Outlander. This season is based on Gabaldon’s third novel in the series “Voyager”, and as we heard from the executive producer Maril Davis, squeezing all of the events from this novel into one season wasn’t an easy task at all, but the author already confirmed that the TV show is staying pretty close to the third novel.
For those who don’t know, Outlander follows the story of a married combat nurse, Claire from 1945 who gets mysteriously swept back in time all the way to 1743, where she is thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. This is where she meets Jamie, and that is where the story really begins.
In season two, we saw a disoriented Claire going back through the standing stones, alone and pregnant, to unwillingly reunite with her first husband Frank in 1948. In the premiere, Claire and Frank negotiated how they could raise a child together, when their relationship is so irrevocably strained by the events of Claire’s absence and the man she fell in love with while she was away. In the season 2 finale “Dragonfly in Amber” we got to see the harrowing moments that lead up to that reunion, as Claire’s second husband, Jamie convinced her to return to her time in order to protect her and their unborn baby, as he believed that it was his destiny to die with his men at the Battle of Culloden.
This seemed like the end of this couple’s story, but Claire discovered that Jamie survived Culloden as well as the execution of Jacobite soldiers that came after the battle, meaning that there was a chance they still could reunite if she went back through the stones at Craigh na Dun – although, 20 years apart.
Sam Heughan says ““There’s a lot of challenges to season 3 — there’s a period of time where Jamie and Claire are apart; he thinks that he’s lost her, or at least that she’s alive and well but in the future, so what is he living for? What sort of man is he now?” Heughan observes. “She will eventually return, but they’re both older, so what is Jamie, who is the man he’s become” in the time since they last saw each other?
These questions will be central to this character in season 3, but we really can’t wait to see if Claire and Jamie will manage to relearn what it means to be a couple, something that Balfe admitted she was eagerly anticipating in season 3.
“I think what’s going to be most exciting is the reunion between Claire and Jamie and them discovering each other again and falling in love all over again,” she stated. “I think both of them have probably held each other up on a pedestal for 20 years, so in many ways, they’re going to have to destroy that image first before they can fall in love with the person right in front of them, and that’s going to be really interesting. I love the complexity of that, because you can’t be in love with a ghost, and Claire is in many ways in love with Jamie’s ghost, as Jamie is in love with her ghost, and that’s not the people they are when they see each other again.”