“He’s so alone.
“On the page, it was written a lot more.
Though he understands why they chose to limit what was depicted.
David Berry on ‘Outlander’.Robert Wilson/Starz
“It was always going to be a weird sex scene,” he adds.
“I was excited by it because it was something that I’d never seen on TV before.
The things that really excite me aboutOutlanderare these moments of, ‘What the hell?
David Berry and Caitriona Balfe on ‘Outlander’.Robert Wilson/Starz
How do you inject a humanity into this?'”
“This was going to be my firstOutlandersex scene,” Berry continues.
There was definitely a passion component that I’m not sure that we quite captured in that moment.
It still confuses me, and I don’t know that we completely solved it. "
Much of that is dealt with in the post-coital heart-to-heart that Claire and John share the next morning.
They admit that neither of them were making love to each other, but instead to Jamie.
Berry is far from finished pondering the scene and its motivations.
“I’ll forever be thinking about it as an acting challenge,” he says.
It is a real pivot moment for these characters.
It will have massive ripple effects moving forward.”
The first ripple being the episode’s final revelation that (surprise!)
Jamie isn’t dead after all.
“How does he deal with that?”
Berry posits of Jamie’s seeming resurrection.
“Lord John is very upset that Jamie has been so reckless,” Berry notes.
“This is something they’ve been very careful to manage the entire time.
It is a huge bombshell.
“Perhaps he should have anticipated that this would be the result of keeping a secret.
