Sam Heughan (“Outlander”) struggled to remove Jamie’s explicit nudity from the rape scene

“These are Claire’s hands, think of Claire. Think of your wife. Claire is here.”says Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies) as he wakes Jamie in a scene that doesn’t go around the bush. Said moment, brutal in relation to the rape of the protagonist of ‘Outlander’, was attentive to her nudesa creative decision that sparked a heated debate among the team members of the aforementioned series.

There is no explicit scene in said sexual moment in which, after days of torture, Jamie lets herself go. “It was nice not to feel pain”he later explains to Claire. “Randall has owned your body, but I’ll be damned if he has your soul too”she replies.

Thus, with one of the hardest passages of Diana Gabaldon’s novels, books on which this television drama is based; “Outlander” closed its first season in May 2015, during which there was a lot of talk about the subject. Back in his day, series showrunner Ron D. Moore commented to Vulture (via Deadline) that the moment had to be captured because “That’s the story. There’s a book we’re following, and it’s part of something absolutely necessary for the book. There’s really no way not to.”adding it “it’s a horrible situation, so it should be horrible”. For his part, Sam Heughan, actor in charge of giving life to Jamie, a character victim of the horrible attack, commented that he felt tricked into filming the moment several times. Now this interpreter reveals more details about it, confessing that he felt “terrified” that day during filming.

Heughan opens in his recently published memoir, “Waypoints: My Scottish Journey,” a book in which he recounts how he fought to remove explicit nudity from the harsh sequence. “That wasn’t a moment when I felt that being naked would aggravate the horror of what Jamie goes through in that castle jail as a form of punishment, submission and humiliation. I refused [el plano frontal]reasoning that nudity sexualized a horrible experience for my character, which sparked a lot of debate”. Even at the time “The Redemption of a Man’s Soul” was broadcast, Heughan said that, having already staged the moment, they asked him “a broader vision”. “I thought I got it out of the way and they told me we’d only go back to shooting up to a certain point.”something he was not satisfied with. “It got to that point and they didn’t say ‘cut’, so we had to continue. I remember feeling terrified and like my trust was broken, because it was horrible.”.

Goodbye naked free

After agreeing to shoot the rape scene a second time so that he can capture even more skin, Sam Heughan managed to convince the “Outlander” production team that some “free” nude shots weren’t a good idea.. “We don’t need to see horror to imagine what the characters go through. The imagination is much more powerful.”he writes in his memoirs. “Although, fortunately, the explicit nude shots were removed in the editing room, it was a harrowing and exhausting experience. The second shot we shot, which showed my penis, was unnecessary and somehow betrayed my faith in the creative team. “.

Heughan adds this further “time has changed” something I also talked about on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “It is important that everyone is protectedand at the same time you have to find a way to explore these scenes to get something more out of them “.