It’s no secret thatOutlanderis sexy.
But shockingly, the drama never employed an intimacy coordinator until season 6, which has just begun airing.
“Those things just weren’t available,” explains Balfe of when they first began shooting the series.
Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan as Claire and Jamie on ‘Outlander’ season 6.Robert Wilson/Starz
“Or if it was available, it just wasn’t commonplace.”
“With fight scenes, you have a fight director,” adds Heughan.
It was Heughan, actually, who introduced Vanessa Coffey to production.
But the entire cast and crew welcomed her presence on set.
“I realized how much we were thrown into the deep end,” Heughan reflects.
“There was a lot of pressure on us as less experienced actors to get it right.
Each year as it went past or each season, I felt the pressure.
It landed on us.
But also to facilitate the scenes, because they are awkward to shoot.”
It’s never comfortable conversations, and sometimes it can cause tensions."
