'Outlander' star Sam Heughan's real hair colour is 'dark blonde'; Diana Gabaldon talks about writing Season 2 script
“Outlander” star Sam Heughan said in a recent interview that people reacted differently when he dyed his hair red for the show. Meanwhile, Diana Gabaldon revealed what it was like to write the script for the show’s Season 2.
Speaking to Elle Canada , Heughan, who plays Jamie Fraser in “Outlander,” said that his natural hair colour is “dark blonde” and that he dyed his hair for the popular TV series every month while filming. The actor added that many of his family members are redheads and that although he may not be one; his beard does seem a “little ginger.”
Heughan revealed that he got his hair dyed seven times in the first two weeks of the pre-production phase of the show. This was apparently done to choose the right shade of red for his hair. The actor said that people started reacting differently towards him after he dyed his hair and he noted that this was perhaps because he had been used to getting reactions from being a blonde. Having some facial hair is also said to have resulted in different reactions from people.
Talking about his character in the “Outlander” TV series, Heughan said that Jamie is very much a man of his time period; but is also “quite forward thinking.” The actor pointed out that Jamie is always changing his opinion, mostly because of his wife Claire (Caitriona Balfe), who encourages him to “see things in a new way.”
The two characters will be travelling to France in Season 2, where they will attempt to stop the Battle of Culloden from happening. Gabaldon, the author of the book series on which the TV series is based on, will be writing the scripts of the 11th episode in the next season.
In a recent Facebook post, Gabaldon said that when the executive producer of the show Ronald D. Moore first approached her to write the script for the first season, she had refused. The author said that she wasn’t sure at that time if she was good at writing a script and felt that she “didn’t want to be responsible for screwing up the vital first season in any way.”
The author revealed that some scenes from the book that are not part of the linear flow of the story have been moved around in “Outlander” Season 2. This has been done to give each episode “its own dramatic arc.”
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