Outlander boss shares season 7 filming challenges on Roger and Brianna story
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Outlander boss Matthew B. Roberts detailed issues production faced as they tried to film Brianna Fraser (played by Sophie Skelton) and Roger MacKenzie’s (Richard Rankin) new life in the future.
Season seven saw the couple’s heart-wrenching decision to return to the future after Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) discovered her granddaughter was born with a heart condition.
In order to get the advanced treatment they needed the family travelled back through the stones and settled at Lallybroch.
Although the series also highlighted the struggle to adjust to their fresh start, the showrunner revealed there were also some hardships away from the cameras.
In episode 707 of Outlander’s official podcast, Matthew spoke on the difficulties filming on the Lallybroch set after it became a major tourism attraction.
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He stated: “Lallybroch is a real place, not a set we built, it’s a Midhope Castle and when we first started filming there it was relatively simple to find time.
“The location manager would go and schedule it, it was no problem and as the years have gone on, because it’s become such an iconic location more and more tourists go to see it.”
“There’s tour buses, certainly during the summer they’ll plan trips to come out and do the Outlander tour.”
Matthew recalled: “We’re having a really hard time getting in to film the show, the irony is dripping.
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“We can’t get in to film the show that made the location famous because people want to see the location because of the show, wrap your head around that,” he added.
The executive producer also revealed this was one of the reasons the majority of season seven’s Lallybroch scenes took place indoors.
Unlike in the earlier episodes when it was home to Jamie Fraser’s (Sam Heughan) sister Jenny (Laura Donnelly).
Matthew explained: “That’s why a lot of times you’ll see in these episodes we’re outside for a moment and then we pop inside because all this stuff is on stage, the inside is the stages so we control that obviously.
“We control the weather, we can film anytime it doesn’t have to match anything, it works out perfect.
“It’s getting that time to film at Midhope it gets problematic because you don’t just show up and say we’re filming on Thursday … it takes at least a week to dress it.”
“He added: “We’ve got to get cleared out, we’ve got to clean it up, we’ve got to dress it and then we come in, base camp get put up and then we film on that Thursday.”
Outlander season 7 part 2 returns in 2024 on Starz in the USA and Lionsgate+ in the UK
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