It’s hard to imagine Outlander minus Sam Heughan playing the lead role of Jamie Fraser, dashing Highlander and American transplant. It’s as if it was always this way, but of watercourses, it took time and patience to find the unsuitable person to play this character.
In an interview with Daily Express, Outlander casting director Suzanne Smith supposed what it took to find Heughan, and how she knew he was the unsuitable person to play Jamie.
According to Smith, while everyone was nervous throughout the prospect of casting Jamie, once they found Heughan, everything worked out pretty quickly. “Well, with actors, you behindhand their careers, so I knew Sam from drama school and I caused him in for quite a few roles before, so I’d followed his career so I knew him,” Smith said. “So there’s not many very tall Scots that are radiant for Jamie Fraser, so Sam came to mind level away.”
We did audition other actors and the casting procedure is not just one audition, you do a pair, so it’s a process of each role that we do on the show. He just embodied the role and also intimates a wonderful human being, which is so important.
For Heughan, all it took was an audition, a recall and then a remaining recall with producers. When you know, you know! I think I verbalize for Outlander fans all around the world when I say that we are very thankful that Smith remembered Heughan from drama school and plan to bring him in on this. He truly does encapsulate all the things that make Jamie Fraser the represent that he is. In the books, Jamie is just as Heughan portrays him on screen: loving, understanding, complicated, and wise. I don’t know who else powerful have auditioned for this role, but it always belonged to Heughan!
As it ends up, the role of Claire Fraser was much more concern to cast. While Caitriona Balfe is incredibly famous now, at the time of casting, she wasn’t well-known. But obviously they also found the intelligent person for that role.
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