Aimee SpinksStarz Season 5 of Outlander is on its way (!) after a year off the air, and, like Jamie and Claire Fraser, our love for the drama stands the test of time. We took a deep-dive into the making of Outlander—ahead are the 53 craziest facts you never knew about the show. 1 of 53 While shooting season four, Sam Heughan decided to run two marathons in four weeks. The leading man told Us Weekly beat his personal best both times by one minute in case you were wondering. 2 of 53 Heughan was once a stable boy, well kinda. “I used to live in sort-of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce,” he told EW in 2014. 3 of 53 Author Diana Gabaldon didn’t ever plan to publish “Outlander.” “I knew I was supposed to be a novelist, but I didn’t know how, and I decided the way to learn was to actually write a novel. So, Outlander was my practice book,” she said at the TCA press day for the PBS series The Great American Read. “I was never going to show it to anyone, so it didn’t matter what I did with it.” 4 of 53 Filming for season four took place in Scotland, not North Carolina. As fans know, season four was about the couple settling down with their family in North Carolina. Instead… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
Read More
53 Things You Never Knew About the Making of ‘Outlander’
