‘Outlander’ Star Sam Heughan Calls Nudity In Brutal Rape Scene “Unnecessary” & Betrayed His Trust - Deadline

In his just-published memoir, Waypoints: My Scottish Journey, Outlander prima Sam Heughan opens up astir a brutal country helium changeable successful Season 1 of the Starz amusement and however it affected him negatively—a taxable helium hasn’t broached successful extent before.

The infinitesimal successful question is erstwhile his character, Jamie Fraser, is tortured and brutally raped by his nemesis Black Jack Randall, played by Tobias Menzies of Game of Thrones fame. The sprout included a full-frontal changeable of his quality aft the rape. Heughan details successful his memoir helium had agreed to nudity successful his contract, but helium didn’t consciousness this level of nudity was due to the scene.

“This wasn’t a infinitesimal wherever I felt that being bare would adhd to the fearfulness of what Jamie undergoes successful that castle dungeon arsenic a signifier of punishment, subjugation and humiliation,” he writes successful the book.

“I pushed back, reasoning that nudity sexualised [sic.] a horrific acquisition for my character, and it sparked rather a debate.”

Outlander is based connected the bid of bestselling novels by Diana Gabaldon, and the rape originates successful the root material. Deadline has reached retired to Starz and volition adhd immoderate remark received.

“We’re not playing astir here,” showrunner Ron D. Moore told Vulture of the country successful 2015. “This is the story. There’s a publication that we’re following, and this is portion of the communicative that is perfectly indispensable to that book. There’s truly nary mode not to bash it. This is simply a horrific situation, truthful it should beryllium horrific.”

Heughan admitted to Vulture that helium felt duped into playing the grueling country 1 much clip astatine 1 constituent successful the shoot.

“They said, ‘We’d emotion 1 much wide changeable of it, the full thing.’ And I was like… [groans], ‘Oh God.’ I thought I’d gotten it each retired of the way. And they said, ‘We’ll lone bash it up to a definite point, conscionable earlier it happens.’ “

But, Heughan said, the manager ne'er called “cut,” and the actors acted retired the rape erstwhile more.

“It got up to that point, and they didn’t telephone ‘cut,’ truthful we had to transportation on,” helium explained. “I retrieve feeling truthful scared, and really feeling somewhat similar my spot had been breached a spot due to the fact that it was horrific. Great to play, but horrific.”

The histrion aboriginal spoke with the accumulation squad and they agreed his quality would beryllium seen naked, but without the spot the histrion felt was gratuitous.

“We don’t request to spot the fearfulness to ideate what the characters spell through. Imagination is mode much powerful,” helium writes successful Waypoints. “Even though, thankfully the nude shots ended connected the cutting country floor. It was a harrowing, exhausting experience.”

As a result, Heughan revealed connected the Happy Sad Confused podcast earlier this twelvemonth that Outlander, successful play six, present has an intimacy coordinator.

“It’s important that everyone is protected, but besides we find a mode to research these scenes and really possibly get thing much retired of them,” Heughan said, saying that helium felt “just thrown successful the heavy end” astatine the opening of the series.

“Times person changed,” helium writes successful the book. “The c**k changeable was unnecessary and did betray my spot successful the originative squad a bit.”