Outlander season 4 notes: What Caitriona Balfe is excited for and more

While we’re going to be back later in the day to preview Outlander season 3 episode 7 further, let’s start off today with something pertaining to Caitriona Balfe!

Early this morning (at least for us on the West Coast) the series star engaged in a rather-fun Q&A session with fans on Twitter — she’s planning to do another later for her US fans. In this one, she revealed that she’s looking forward to filming at Fraser’s Ridge, a place that should become her home base on the series for quite some time. (Minor spoilers ahead.) After spending much of the first three seasons traveling in between Scotland, France, and America, Claire is finally going to have somewhere a little more stable from season 4 onward, or at least to where Diana Gabaldon is in the story now. There’s a reason, after all, why Balfe refers to it as “home.”

We recently posted a story featuring showrunner Robert D. Moore, and within it he explained that production-wise one of the big changes with Fraser’s Ridge is going to be the opportunity to have more standing sets and a little bit of a different production where it doesn’t feel as though there is an all-new show happening almost every week. Outlander season 3 is the season that does this the most given that the novel Voyager features Claire in the present, Jamie in the past, the two eventually coming together, and then the voyage at sea. These are effectively four very different stories all placed within a single season.

While we wouldn’t necessarily consider another quote from Balfe about the show’s longevity all that surprising or newsworthy, we’ll still include it below. After all, she makes it clear that she doesn’t have any plans for other TV gigs because she’s going to be busy with this show for very much a long time.

Other season 4 odds and ends

Filming started for season 4 earlier this month in Scotland, where it will continue for the most part until the spring/early summer. There is less traveling this year from a production standpoint, but there are still many interesting journeys that we will see the characters face. There’s no better example of that than what is coming for Roger and Brianna.

Executive producer Matthew B. Roberts is one of the main people in charge on location, and the image below (via Twitter) gives you a sense as to just how beautiful some of the scenery will be. It also gives you an even better sense of the diversity of terrain in Scotland that will be doubling as North Carolina. This looks far and away different than any version of Scotland we’ve seen to date on the show.

Before you go…

Take a look at the link here for an additional discussion of the Outlander viewership and our hopes for the end of the season!

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