Sam Heughan’s advice to ‘Outlander’ spinoff cast revealed — as they worried over ‘daunting’ sex scenes
It’s all in the family.
The hit series “Outlander” now has a spinoff, “Outlander: Blood of My Blood,” premiering Friday, Aug 8 on Starz (8 p.m. ET).
“One of the main things [‘Outlander’ star Sam Heughan] said to me right at the start was just to enjoy every single moment as much as you can,” Jamie Roy, who stars in “Outlander: Blood of my Blood,” told The Post.
“Outlander” premiered in 2014 (based on a bestselling book series), and will end with Season 8 at an unannounced date in 2026. The original show follows Claire (Caitriona Balfe), an English nurse from 1945 who time-travels back to 1743, where she falls in love with the Scottish highlander, Jamie Fraser (Heughan).
“Outlander: Blood of My Blood” is a prequel about the dual love stories of Jamie’s parents, Brian Fraser (Roy) and Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater), and Claire’s parents, Julia (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine).
Heughan isn’t in “Outlander: Blood of My Blood,” since it shows Jamie’s parents falling in love before he was born. Slater and Roy, however, have met the actor who plays their on-screen “son” at various events promoting the show.
Roy revealed that Heughan gave him the advice that “There’s going to be tough days. But ultimately, take a step back and look at what you’re doing and how lucky we are to be able to do this sort of thing.”
He shared, “I’ve taken that [advice] with me.”
The Scottish actor added that Heughan “literally was texting me [at the premiere], checking in on me. Saying, ‘How are you doing? Are you coping okay?’”
Roy said that Heughan’s messages “really means a lot more than I can say, to have that kind of support.”
Slater told The Post that she didn’t try to imitate Heughan’s mannerisms while playing his on-screen mother, but she and Roy “both watched ‘Outlander’ while shooting Season 1 of ‘Blood in My Blood.’”
The “Pennyworth” actress added, “I think I just absorbed the spirit of Jamie Fraser and also of [his daughter, Brianna] and also of [his sister, Jenny] as well. So, I didn’t try to mimic anything or learn any mannerisms or anything like that. It was more of just a general absorbing of the characters, and the core of them.”
Roy joked that fans have complimented how his performance is similar to Heughan’s, but he didn’t do it on purpose.
“I wish I could take credit. I worked hard, but that wasn’t the stuff that I was focusing on. So any little crossovers you see are totally coincidental, for the most part.”
He said that any similarities between the on-screen father and son “just speaks to casting’s ability to find actors like myself and Harriett, who do embody some certain aspects of other actors.”
“Outlander” is known for its steamy scenes, and “Outlander: Blood of My Blood” also has plenty. “I’d never done anything of this level before, and it was daunting,” said Slater.
She added, “But we have a brilliant team of support behind us. We work with an intimacy coordinator, who makes sure that we feel safe and confident before we step on set for any kind of those kinds of scenes.”
Slater explained that there’s always a closed set for sex scenes, “which means there’s as few people as possible, and we rehearse a lot beforehand. So that we know exactly what is going to be asked of us on the day, it’s choreographed.”
