{"id":128921,"date":"2023-06-14T06:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=128921"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:03:50","slug":"it-gets-blown-up-a-wee-bit-we-meet-the-mackenzies-for-outlander-s7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/exclusive\/it-gets-blown-up-a-wee-bit-we-meet-the-mackenzies-for-outlander-s7\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt gets blown up a wee bit!\u201d We meet the MacKenzies for Outlander S7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is like a family reunion!\u201d Outlander<\/strong><\/em> star Sophie Skelton says when we ask her what it’s like to reunite with her co-stars for the seventh season of the show.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn’t really get to hang out much this season outside of work. We haven’t seen each other since we wrapped and so the festivals are really fun and one of our first press tours all started together. So it’s just felt like good family time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Skelton plays Brianna in the show and we’re speaking to her and her co-star Richard Rankin who plays Brianna\u2019s husband Roger. It\u2019s ironic that the pair are speaking of their co-stars in terms of family, because that really is a major theme for the series. Especially in the later series as Brianna and Roger time-travel from their 20th Century home to join Brianna\u2019s parents, Jamie and Claire Fraser, at Fraser\u2019s Ridge, their 18th century homestead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s probably safe to say that Roger and Brianna have been through a lot. There aren\u2019t too many marriages that have to deal with the trial and tribulations of time travel (okay, one other couple springs to mind *ahem* Jamie and Claire).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, after finally coming to terms that Fraser\u2019s Ridge is more of a home to them than the 20th century they were born in, the pair are really starting to settle into family life, with Roger even finding a potential vocation as a minister and the couple expecting their second child.<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems that family unit is only going to become more stable in Season Seven: \u201cRoger and Bree start off in a very unique place,\u201d Skelton tells us. \u201cThey’ve built such a good team together now. They’re just a really, great solid couple now and it’s lovely to see that because they’ve been through so much as individuals and together. The MacKenzie clan is growing in strength and in numbers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The same probably can\u2019t be said for the Fraser clan. How many times have Jamie and Claire Fraser been up for a-hanging? Answers on a postcard please. The pair have avoided the hangman\u2019s noose plenty of times but for Claire at the end of Outlander<\/strong><\/em> Season Six, it seemed like this time may be the last.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After being accused of murdering Malva Christie and her unborn child, Claire (accompanied by Jamie) is marched off by Richard Brown and his men, alongside Malva\u2019s father, Thomas in search of a judge to give Claire a fair trial. However, with the American Revolution bubbling away under the surface, the journey turned out to be a long one and the ending of Season Six finished with Claire and Jamie being separated and Claire on a surefire path to execution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not that Brianna and Roger know anything about this. The pair are on a journey of their own, travelling to Edenton for Roger to become ordained, which means doing a month-long training.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roger and Bree are becoming a solid family unit in Season Seven of Outlander.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It certainly seems that things are finally going well for the young couple but c\u2019mon, this is Outlander<\/strong><\/em>! \u201cIt’s one of those seasons where they’ve actually finally got their shit together as a couple,\u201d Skelton says, \u201cbut the irony is that though they\u2019re more together than they’ve ever been, they [also] get pulled apart at heart\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes it seems there will be more trouble afoot for the Frasers and MacKenzies in <\/span>Outlander<\/i><\/b> Season Seven, which is released this June and will be split into two parts of eight episodes each, with the back half airing in 2024. \u201cIt’s such an adventurous season,\u201d Skelton nods. \u201cThere’s so much that goes on. So you’re gonna need some time after the first half just to compose your thoughts. So it’s a good thing you have a little break!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Having started their journey in the 20th Century and travelling to the 18th, Skelton and Rankin know only too well the positives and negatives of filming throughout time, and we can\u2019t help but wonder – is there a favourite time that they prefer to be in?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhichever one I’m not<\/em><\/strong> in, I always think I want to be in,\u201d Rankin laughs. \u201cAnd then you go, \u2018oh, I miss the one I was just in\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s funny though, because I feel like this season, there is a location change and I actually really enjoyed where we are this season, where we end up,\u201d Skelton says. \u201cSometimes it’s funny because obviously [the show] spans different oceans and landscapes and times and everything, you can often feel like you\u2019re on a different show to everybody else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo there were times this season where I kind of felt like we weren\u2019t on <\/span>Outlander<\/i><\/b>, which was a little unsettling and weird.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wherever Roger and Bree end up, it\u2019s clear that they\u2019ll face whatever comes at them together, which comes back to that central family theme. Indeed, it\u2019s obvious when speaking to Skelton and Rankin that their on-screen family unit means a lot to them. So much so, in fact, that when we ask them what they\u2019re most excited for audiences to see in Season Seven, they both point in one direction: the MacKenzies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI love the MacKenzie family,\u201d Skelton enthuses. \u201cWe have such a cool little clan going on now and I think that audiences are really really going to like it. Because I feel like we haven’t really had that dynamic on the show before. We’ve had the dynamic of family and mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters and in-laws and all of that, but we haven’t really had a proper unit of like young kids.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re building and protecting their own thing, by themselves,\u201d adds Rankin.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re proper nesting and it gets blown up a wee bit but it’s alright. It kind of goes dark pretty quickly but it’s just it’s a really cool little world now that the MacKenzies have and the audience is gonna love it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ah, well it isn\u2019t really Outlander<\/strong><\/em> if things don\u2019t get blown up a wee bit, is it?!<\/span><\/p>\n

The seventh season of Outlander is set to premiere on Friday, 16 June exclusively on LIONSGATE+ in the UK with new episodes available to stream weekly on Fridays on the premium international streamer.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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