“It’s at all times unusual if you movie this stuff the place you need to put your self on the precipice of loss of life,” Outlander star Caitriona Balfe advised us about taking pictures that surprising opening second of the Season 7 premiere, by which her character, time-traveling physician Claire Fraser seems to be hanged for homicide.

Within the first episode of our weekly Outlander aftershow, Inside Outlander, the actress shares behind-the-scenes particulars of filming that scene and others within the romantic saga’s much-anticipated return, together with the second Claire reunites along with her husband Jamie (Sam Heughan).

“This couple, at any time when they’re torn aside, at any time when they’re separated, it’s like they lose a limb, and at any time when they arrive again collectively once more it’s like their full life pressure returns to them. They don’t operate totally with out one another,” Balfe tells us.

She additionally hints about what’s subsequent: “This season there’s an terrible lot of trauma however Claire is extra mentally able to dealing with it [than last season].”

Balfe then reveals we haven’t seen the final of Tom Christie (Mark Lewis Jones), Claire’s sudden savior within the season premiere. The actress guarantees extra twists and turns in that storyline.

Take a look at the video above for extra from Balfe on taking pictures that shipboard scene with Jones; her first time working as a director on the sequence (she helmed a scene with Sophie Skelton, who performs Claire’s daughter Bree); what she discovered about ladies on the battlefield within the American Revolution; and the way Jamie’s wartime challenges will have an effect on the couple.

Come again every week for perspective on a brand new episode of Outlander from the celebs themselves. Up subsequent: Sam Heughan!

Outlander, Fridays, 8/7c, Starz