Why Outlander's Sam Heughan Says He Felt Betrayed by the Show

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In an excerpt from his caller book, Outlander prima Sam Heughan said a hard country during the show's archetypal play "would person been handled differently" now. Find retired wherefore helium was disappointed.

"Outlander" Star Sam Heughan Hurt By 6 Years of Bullying

Sam Heughan is speaking his mind.

The 42-year-old actor, who has played Jamie Fraser connected each six seasons of the Starz humanities play Outlander, said the show's originative squad managed to "betray his trust" during the show's archetypal season. 

In his caller memoir Waypoints: My Scottish Journey, Heughan referenced a peculiarly brutal country betwixt his quality and Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies) successful the play 1 finale, successful which Jamie is sexually assaulted by Black Jack. Heughan said helium didn't deliberation it was indispensable for his quality to portion bare for 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," Heughan wrote, according to Insider. "I pushed back, reasoning that nudity sexualized a horrific acquisition for my character, and it sparked rather a debate." 

The Outlander squad was consenting to listen, arsenic Heughan wrote, "Creative conversations are a diagnostic of each productions, bully creation is made by questioning the information and we each privation to get it right."

Ultimately, they came to an statement to lone amusement his quality bare successful the aftermath of being raped and that the astir gratuitous shots would beryllium "left connected the cutting country floor."

Still, Heughan's opinion connected the substance ne'er changed.

"The cock changeable was unnecessary and did betray my spot successful the originative squad a bit," helium wrote. "We don't request to spot the fearfulness to ideate what the characters spell through. Imagination is mode much powerful."

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Heughan acknowledged that "times person changed" and if the aforesaid country was filmed today, "It would person been handled differently."

The seventh play of Outlander, starring Heughan, has begun filming. His book Waypoints: My Scottish Journey is disposable now.

E! News has reached retired to Outlander producers for remark and hasn't heard back.

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