'Outlander' Season 4 News & Updates: Caitriona Balfe Teases Fans Will See A More 'Nurturing' Yet Different Claire Next Season
Claire and Jamie will start a new life in Colonial America in the forthcoming Outlander Season 4. Caitriona Balfe has revealed that her character will have a different take on the new environment that the Fraser couple will be into this season. Thus, fans will see a very different side of Claire as well.
In the previous seasons, fans witnessed Claire's (Balfe) skills as a nurse and a surgeon, her ingenuity as a time-traveler, her passion as a wife to both Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies), and her love as a mother to Brianna (Sophie Skelton). Claire and Jamie had been in several countries as well in which they both learn to adapt and face different challenges along their way.
However, it looks like Claire and Jamie will finally be more of home-makers in the upcoming fourth installment. The couple will settle in a place which they will eventually call the Frasers Ridge.
"This is a very different side of Claire this season ... And this is a much more settled version of Claire. We see a much more nurturing side of her. But this, it is much more about home, and creating that and the value of having that," Balfe said.
In an interview with GoldDerby, Balfe said Claire and Jamie would be finding their way through a new land just before the American Revolution. It will be a familiar country for Claire yet in a very different setting. She will have a different perspective of the country since she already lived and experienced American democracy in the future.
Although it looks like they will encounter fewer conflicts this season, it doesn't mean there will be less drama in Outlander Season 4. Claire will reunite with her daughter Brianna while it will be an emotional first meeting for Jamie and Bree.
Moreover, the fourth installment will also have a disturbing rape storyline. Outlander fans who have read Diana Gabaldon's Drums Of Autumn book have known that Brianna will make her own journey to the 18th century to find and warn her parents about an imminent danger.
As she travels across the American colonies, she will be raped by Irish pirate and smuggler Stephen Bonnet (Ed Speleers). Outlander showrunners earlier warned that the new series villain is worse than Black Jack Randall (Menzies).
"Stephen Bonnet is a pure psychopath and a narcissist whose day-to-day is, 'What's going to pleasure me?' " executive producer Matt B. Roberts said.
Outlander Season 4 is already into its last few weeks of filming. The 13-episode fourth installment is expected to premiere on Starz in November.
