‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Stars Explain Series & Behind-the-Scenes Lore

Outlander: Blood of My Blood may not have a new episode on Friday, November 13, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait to see the stars reflecting on the lore of the series and the behind-the-scenes moments fans don’t see on-screen. In our video interview above, from the TV Insider studio, Jamie Roy, Harriet Slater, and Jeremy Irvine walk us through some of the biggest topics, ranging from time travel and battles to villains and beyond, including midges.

Reflecting on some of their biggest moments so far, Irvine recalls preparing for Henry’s trip back to the future at the start of Season 2. As Irving puts it, Henry “jumps out of one fire into another” after he escaped Arch Bug (Terence Rae) and found himself in a 1920s asylum. “You can find footage of people having it done,” the actor notes, before adding, “there was lots of reference” for him to seek out in preparation for Henry’s hardships.

Meanwhile, when it came to Ellen’s badass defense of Castle Leoch, Slater reveals that showrunner Matthew B. Roberts pitched the concept to her as “Home Alone but with knives.” She says, “It was a lot of fun, and it was great being with the girls.”

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Despite Ellen’s obvious skills with a bow and arrow, Slater admits, “I’m actually terrible at it, but I look like I’m good at it in the episode and that’s all that matters.”

Meanwhile, the bats in the belfry may not have been real, but she asserts, “There are a lot of real bats at Doune where we shoot Leoch in real life. They’re such divas.”

When it comes to the battlefield, though, there are other pests at play. Although Roy, who plays Brian, admits the midges that both the prequel and original series stars had to contend with were not as much of an issue on Blood of My Blood Season 2, “We didn’t have midges, but we had wasps. There were so many wasps on the field, and we’re all like doused in this fake blood… It’s a sugar syrup base or something, so it attracts these wasps,” he explains. “So between takes, it looks like everybody was like fighting off their demons, but actually, it was all these wasps that were coming to attack us.”

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The cast behind Starz’s time-traversing prequel series chronicling the love stories of Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) parents, Brian and Ellen, and Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) parents, Julia (Hermione Corfield) and Henry, discuss more in the must-see video interview above, including which big bad is their most formidable villain this season.

Don’t miss the upcoming episodes of Outlander: Blood of My Blood when Season 2 continues on Starz.

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