There’s no other person other than Caitriona Balfe that we can imagine as Claire on Outlander.
However, it turns out that the -year-old actress was cast just days before production started on the hit Starz series. Speaking to Collider, showrunner Ronald D.
Moore opened up about early casting processes that brought us to Sam Heughan and Caitriona as Jamie and Claire. “At the beginning, I said, ‘We’re going to cast Claire first because she’ll be the easiest to find,’” he recalled. “‘She’s a smart 20th-century British woman, and there are lots of them and we’ll find her quickly, but Jamie’s gonna be tough.
How do you find the king of men? This heroic figure, this Scot?’” Sam ended up being the first one cast for the show, with Claire still
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