Inside Sam Heughan and Caitríona Balfe’s close friendship and off-screen relationship

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Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe share a close bond on-screen and off.The pair are best known for capturing the hearts of viewers with their portrayal of husband and wife Jamie and Claire Fraser in OutlanderThroughout the years, the co-stars have spoken highly of one another, often admiring each other's talents while on the set of the Starz show.

During an interview with EW, the Scots star reflected on the first time they met while taking a chemistry test. "We just started chatting in the [chemistry] test before we started the audition, and we just seemed to get on."Her humour is fantastic.

She's great fun to work with. She's very hardworking, a wonderful actress, very natural."And Caitriona also praised her co-star: "We’re really good friends,” she told PEOPLE when the series first premiered.“We’re both going through the same experience, so that’s great, we both really understand that.

I hope I’m as good support as he is to me.And in a nod to their sweet friendship, the Jamie Fraser star previously admitted his on-screen wife has almost “all the qualities” he would like in a romantic partner.In 2023, the pair took part in the Vanity Fair Game Show where they had to ask each other questions to find out how well they know one another.Caitriona was tasked with answering what qualities Heughan looks for in a romantic partner, to which he joked for her to “keep it clean”.