What in tarnation wasthat?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: The tar and feathering scene was intense.
It was horrific when we were going through these.
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What can we do?
Will it look right?
What will the audience reaction be?
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Do you reallywantto look at something like that?
We questioned all these things and we dont want to be gratuitous, but it also has to play.
And whats happening on screen has to affect the characters, not the audience.
Its not just a gratuitous moment to cause shock and awe for the audience.
So we needed this tar and feathering to happen for the sake of Murtagh.
The horror is there for the residents of Hillsborough.
Jamie knows that firsthand.
We know that it happened in the colonies.
We have record of it happening.
I dont know if they did that in Scotland.
We didnt do it.
Weve never done it on a show other than this season.
I love the scenes when you have Bree and Claire talking about the creation of penicillin and playing God.
Its obviously a topic that needs to be addressed because she is altering time.
That conversation is kind of the spark.
What have we already done?
Bree has to really think about that for a second.Are you playing God?
Are you messing with time and space?Ive already done it because youre standing in front of me.
Sometimes you dont think it all the way through, and thats what I liked about Bree.
Shes like, hold on, were bringing modern stuff into this to this time.
But there are two modern people standing there having the discussion.
Thats the irony of the scene.
I was really thrown off by the women fighting, the womens boxing match.
Not only did they fight dogs, they had cockfighting and dogs and bear-baiting.
They also had bare knuckle boxing and fighting.
Women would do it as well.
What we read about was that a lot of times prostitutes would fight over territories.
Somebody found this little tidbit about women fighting and we thought, you know what?
Lets go down that road.
Lets see what that looks like.
Once we saw it, it just kind of jumps off of the screen.
Were not just putting it in there.
So we felt like visually it would really do something for the show in that kind ofOutlanderway.
So it was like, hey … lets push the envelope.
Obviously Stephen Bonnet is the new villain.
You dont want to have a carbon copy of Black Jack.
I think Black Jack had different sensibilities.
He believed in duty, honor, loyalty to the crown, and responsibility to being a good soldier.
He was not just a sadist.
He was obsessed with Jamie loving him.
Thats what made that dynamic.
Bonnet, to me, is a person that was affected by his upbringing.
He was orphaned and treated badly and lived off the streets and was never loved.
He was a product of that, whereas we cant say that about Black Jack.
Who would he have been?
Thats the struggle for Bonnet.
Thats the thing that about Bonnet.
Roger hangs out with them during a journey across the sea.
They have moments where it feels like if he wasnt a killer, they would be friends.
And its up until Bree gets raped where you really go, okay, this guys just evil.
And thats the thing about Bonnet.
Everything he does, he feels like hes doing for a good reason.
And thats what makes him so scary, is that he justifies it to himself.
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