#outlandercast

"And to you—" "And to you." "For going on this amazing journey."

"When my husband was murdered, I wasn't prepared for how quiet the world would become. All the sounds that a person makes in your life. The rhythms. How you expect a certain sound at a certain time of day. A door. Footfall. The stupid thing he used to do that annoyed me. And then suddenly there's nothing. It's just great silence. For me, every moment since has been about trying to fill that. You need to ask yourself: doing all this, is it how you should fill yours?"

“It was a seven-and-a-half-minute take, a ton of dialogue, very intimate. And, obviously, you know that all the crew were there—you could feel the tension,” Heughan remembers. “I did my close-up first, and I was just trying to get through it, to be honest. I think I sort of shut down internally. I could see Caitríona getting more emotional. I think it was her eyebrow or her cheek—something was twitching the whole way. Then we wrapped and walked out, and everyone was there. They called a wrap on it and I was crying. There were tears in our eyes. Caitríona was a mess—she was proper, I think she said, ‘ugly crying.’ I was very emotional as well. It was exhausting—but also wonderful.”

Skelton shares that Balfe was there for her own final scene. “I saw that she was behind the camera with the crew, waiting to clap and wrap me out. She was the first person I went over to. I hadn’t had any tears until then. But she was quite teary, and her being teary got me teary. We were just crying off each other’s tears. I took my wig off, she sat with me, we had a little toast in the makeup trailer. Then we went to where Sam was doing his final scene. They said, ‘That is Sam wrapped on Outlander forever.’ Those are very big words to hear. There was just a sea of people clapping, and he just sort of parted a path and found me and Caitríona, and the three of us had a big hug. We all had a little cry.”

Skelton gets choked up. “As we walked back to base, somebody said into the radio—and I’m getting goosebumps now—‘That’s the three of them back at base, for the last time.’ And that made us just break down.”