How are you doing?
I'm well, thank you.
How are you both? Look Scott.
What's happening with your light in there?
That's interesting choice of well,
because you've gone with the greens lately.
I almost said that.
Yeah, I'm
trying to mask the terrible attic space that I have as my office with some neon.
Neon lights, what you do.
And they just chuck neon lights, terrible spaces
with floating lights.
So we've got to genuinely excited by your set up there.
Yeah.
It wasn't like someone who was awake again.
It looked horrific.
This room, my office is.
It looks like when I did zoom in the first you know, during the pandemic and stuff,
it looked like I was in a
in a bunker somewhere kidnaped by someone because it was so dark and disgusting.
Never mind.
Guys, congratulations on Outlander again.
Continued success of Outlander.
Maybe I'll start with you, Sophie.
Have you got your head around over the years?
It's continued just how
massive the show is. I mean, I've just.
Just before then, looking on YouTube stuff that you guys have done in interviews
and stuff and just the fan base is just insane.
Yeah.
It's funny, when I got cast, obviously it was quite a secret for a while.
My producers pulled me aside and he said, Look,
this is a very specific fanbase and very passionate it's amazing.
But also you might be eaten alive we just want to warn you...
obviously is my casting release going out?
Look, nothing like Brianna or I'm Not American and all these things
that we're working against me, he was like, but you are Brianna.
And when they see it all, shall be well
Well, and so I think just since then, we did have a bit of pre-warning. Yes.
It catches you have got at times, but it's it's
actually just been incredible how supportive of fan them are
and the fact
that we have had such a long hiatus and they still stuck with the show.
The fact that we're going into season seven and season six is airing
and the fans are just as passionate as they were six,
seven years ago is is quite a feat because it's very rare.
So, yeah, although we were we were warned
we weren't totally bad and it takes your breath away every day.
Actually, it's it's wonderful.
Yeah.
Richard, how have you found the whole process of
not just being in the show, but the kind of fanbase?
Because like Sophie said, you've been on hiatus
for a while for obvious reasons, and people are still so desperate,
so desperate to in fact, that they wanted to know about season
seven before they've seen Season six.
They do do that.
Like if something's announced or a New Seasons and I go, Oh, that's great.
I hope they know.
I know Season eight, you're like, Wait...what?!
We've only just started filming Season six, seven has been announced
and you want eight?!
It's like, you know, they like to leap ahead.
They like to know they like that security that it's there.
But I mean, what an incredible fan base.
So I think it's quite a it's quite a unique one.
And they've always been so very loyal and so very passionate
and they have stuck around because, you know, we were on hiatus for,
what was it, two years but you know, you don't have to tell them to expect
they don't want to wait on a show and to wait on the return of our show.
A lot of shows with
the whole was the fans would lose interest over that time for sure.
And and that did happen, but it didn't happen to us,
which we're all very grateful and thankful for.
But I think that was just testament to them, you know, fans and
they are ever present.
I mean, you start to get to really know them and interact with them
and they're very opinionated and very vocal.
So you always kind of have your finger on the pulse in terms of where they're at,
what they expect, what they were like over to.
Yeah, find out where we're shooting before we even know where we're going.
Yeah.
We turn up to set and they they tell us
that a season's happening or the screenings happening.
Oh, cool cool...
You know what I mean?
It's just, just ask.
Just ask the fans. Just go, you know what?
What's my character?
What are we doing?
What are we going they'll help. Yeah.
They'll tell you the remainder of what your character's supposed to be doing.
So they are on it.
They are absolutely on it.
It's it's quite a thing to be part of.
Yeah.
And maybe, Sophie, I'll take this question to you
first again, just so it's easier, but I mean, you
you very rarely you get to play so many characters in a in a career, but
very few people get to play characters over the space of five, six, seven years.
What are the kind of challenges to doing that?
Because you want to keep things fresh and people who already know, you know,
the source material and everything else.
So for you as an actor, how have you found the fact that they've managed
to keep it fresh and they've kept you kind of, you know, in the in the dark?
So what is it that there's some surprises right down the line.
That's why I think we're very lucky with the show.
And it because it is about time travel.
And I've had the luxury of playing Brianna from 16 to 26 with the flashbacks
and everything else.
And because of the time travel, I've managed to work
with most of people on the show,
whereas a lot of the storylines on the show are quite isolated.
So when they get to integrate with certain actors I've, I've had the
Claires, the Franks and whatever and the Muriels and all of that.
So it's been really fun for me in that way.
And also Brianna's,
I feel like she takes on other people's emotions quite a lot like an actor
who does.
So she's almost a different version of herself
depending on who she's with and is in that way.
I've been lucky in that it almost is like doing mini movies
because her character progresses and changes so much
and has circumstances changed so much and the decade and century
that she's and changes so much that it always feels fresh anyway.
So that's just credit to Diana [Gabaldon ]'s books
and to, like you said, how the writers keep things
fresh and throw in these little bits that weren't in the books
just to keep it on them.
So it hasn't felt like just being in one thing for seven years
because every season is so different and Brianna's always so different from
season to season.
Yeah. And Richard, what about Roger?
Roger has an interesting trajectory over the over the seasons.
Have you have you enjoyed
playing him in all of the facets of him throughout the years?
That you've done this?
Yeah, it's it's
you know, it's quite a long time and
having the opportunity to play your character for such a long
time comes with it.
Variety of advantages
becomes easier to play if you've created that
foundation, the character that you've developed
becomes a little bit more you're more in tune with that character.
You know what that system can feel in certain situations. But
with shooting over such a long period of time over the years or the series.
But we could
but the time that Outlander finishes, we could have been on it for a decade.
I mean, that's not far from a possibility.
So that, you know, come that you need to have a certain focus to have a certain
commitment, too.
It's easy to get complacent.
It's easy to kind of of drop the ball
It's just important to keep yourself focused on what you're doing
and when and where your character is and where you are as an actor.
Also, it takes a lot of kind of
commitment and dedication on the actor's part, I think, to not lose
sight of of it and and just kind of let it be become a sort of,
you know, to have a complacent approach to it.
And but then, saying that, changes.
It goes the as a mind, as a person, as a husband,
I think as one of the things that really gets me about the book
and one of the things I was most excited about playing on the show was just that
chaotic, crazy trajectory
that the poor man has but...
You know, it's all for love.
So that makes everything okay.
But yeah, I think those character arcs, those characters on these
very well written, she throws in some pretty crazy scenarios
for these characters to go through some some real turmoil, some real
some real stressful events.
So yeah, that obviously keeps it very alive for you.
And it never seems very sort of pedestrian or mundane play in these characters.
So that does help a lot.
Yeah.
And you guys go through such a such a cavalcade of like decades and centuries
and everything else is there is that sounds like such a silly question,
but I'm going to ask anyway, is there a decade where if you were able
to pick a place to see those characters and do you have a decade in mind?
Where you'd be like but quite like to see them in a nest place, for example?
Like, for me as a child of the eighties, I'd love to go back to the eighties.
I was just going to say the eighties.
I feel like I would have to say the eighties that is like weird and cool
and geeky and like I just think it would just be a great, great time.
It's like that.
It's sort of it's like just the free living era where everyone just lets
any expectations go and just kind of takes everything day by day.
I think after being in the 1700s of things so oppressed, the eighties just feels so
free and
breezy and I don't know, I could just imagine
running around like Sandy and Danny.
I want to be like,
Yeah,
this is in the seventies.
Yeah.
And I think I agree the eighties
with the eighties with the decade for what to think about.
I wouldn't mind seeing them a rave in the nineties either, you know,
that much of the highs
he did explaining the Latin word for each bloody cocktail.
Yeah, yeah.
On the origins of a rave and what it meant to the ancient Romans.
Yeah, yeah.
Also I think if you have any reason I say the eighties is all for you guys is
I feel like there could be like you could have Doc Brown
or Marty McFly with that time machine and kind of have a little
crossover that's all about these connected universes these days.
So let's have a talk about why not
go back to the future for back to the future.
Back to the future for Back to the future.
Yeah, I'd just imagine Doc and Marty in the 1600s and you guys in the eighties
that would that would be hilarious you know
guys my time is up.
Thank you so so much for your time.
Absolute pleasure as always. Good luck with that.
Six, six and seven when they arrive Thank you.