Outlander’s Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) could also be stunning however they’re each of their fifties now in Outlander, giving viewers a perspective of a relationship that has spanned many years.
That is most frequently not the norm in TV land the place youthful {couples} and early love in relationships are explored greater than in established ones — or, a minimum of, in terms of the principle characters in tv exhibits.
Now, Caitriona Balfe has spoken out about her character’s mature relationship and the way it has modified through the years.
Jamie turned 50 in Season 5
Whereas Claire met Jamie in her twenties again in Season 1 of Outlander, Jamie celebrated his fiftieth birthday in Season 5 of the hit historic time-traveling drama sequence.
That made Claire roughly 55 at that time within the TV present. Now that Season 6 of Outlander has concluded Jamie will now be roughly 55 and Claire 60, utilizing the ebook sequence by Diana Gabaldon as a reference level.
Which means Outlander has been following their love story for many years now, which Balfe thinks is an excellent achievement.
“It’s stunning. I feel it’s very nice to be taking part in this couple that has a lot historical past and has a lot understanding of one another and has weathered so many storms collectively,” Balfe recently told Awards Daily.
Outlander is the ‘story of marriage’
Whereas followers of Outlander have all the time been thirsty for Jamie and Claire’s love story, the creator of the ebook sequence has all the time deliberate to inform the “story of marriage,” in keeping with Balfe.
“Diana [Gabaldon] was all the time telling the story of a wedding. Falling in love was simply the very starting; it’s staying in love and it’s conserving the love ignited that’s the actual story.”
And, due to this, what viewers see on the display now — versus again in Season 1 — is dramatically totally different due to the age of their marriage.
“We speak loads with the writers about: what’s the distinction between a pair that’s been collectively for thus a few years and but they nonetheless have ardour, however it could possibly’t be the identical because it was in younger love,” Balfe defined. “It has to evolve and it has to deepen and it has to vary and morph into different issues.”
On prime of this, Balfe additionally revealed that her relationship with co-star Sam Heughan has additionally developed through the years, nearly like a wedding, as properly. Though, in actual life, the pair have all the time maintained a platonic friendship and Balfe recently welcomed her first child together with her husband, Tony McGill.
“Sam and I’ve such a shorthand with one another,” Balfe revealed.
“We’ve been by a lot collectively. I feel we have now such an understanding of one another, and that’s helped a lot with taking part in this couple that has life between them.”
Outlander has been renewed for Season 7, however the premiere date has not but been suggested.
