Outlander season 4: Caitriona Balfe films at public park

It’s not often that we have so many Outlander season 4 filming updates within a week; yet, it’s also not often that the Starz series is in production at fairly public places.

Yesterday, we posted that the series was going to be filming at Cumbernauld Glen, a public park located close to the Cumbernauld village (naturally) as well as Glasgow in Scotland. Now, there’s photographic proof really all over the internet. We don’t share filming pictures here, but there are all sorts of shots of Caitriona Balfe in costume, taking photos with various fans in the midst of the filming process. (This is ultimately a very kind thing for her to do, given that they are having to try and focus on work at the same time.)

Filming at Cumbernauld Glen will continue over the course of the coming days, and really this very story is a microcosm of just how far Outlander has come over the years. Back when the first season was being made, the series had yet to take off in the mainstream in the way that it has now. Filming could take place a little more in a bubble where the cast didn’t get so many headlines within the outside world. Now, the series is in a position where filming updates are headlines across the world and there are larger throngs of fans waiting anytime production is in a fairly public place. There were scenes filmed earlier this week at Falkland village, and now we’ve of course got some of the sequences at Cumbernauld Glen. (Many scenes are often shot in places that most fans cannot reach, which is why in turn there are at times long gaps where we don’t get photos featuring the cast members or many updates.)

Our easy assumption here is that the park is one of many places that the series is using to double as North Carolina, the setting for much of the fourth season. Because Jamie and Claire are now in America, producers have to utilize different techniques and priorities in filming than they have in the past. It’s now a little bit less about trying to highlight Scotland and now more about places that serve as adequate doubles. That’s been a challenge for the locations scouts; other than for scenes featuring characters like Roger and Brianna, they have to uncover almost entirely new places to film and explore this year.

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