The actor said he did not think the full frontal shot almost left in the shows first season would be considered today Times have changed.
Sam Heughan who stars as Jamie Fraser on the Starz drama Outlander said a full frontal shot of his penis after he filmed a horrific scene in which his character is raped by another man was unnecessary and betrayed his trust with the creative team. Heughan wrote in his new memoir Waypoints My Scottish Journey that he pushed back on including the graphic shot reasoning that nudity sexualised a horrific experience for my character and it sparked quite a debate.
He said although the penis shot was eventually cut from the show in favor of a slightly less graphic one of him sprawled naked on the dungeon floor he still felt betrayed by the whole experience. This a moment where I felt that being naked would add to the horror of what Jamie undergoes in that castle dungeon as a form of punishment, subjugation and humiliation he wrote adding We do not need to see the horror to imagine what the characters go through. Imagination is way more powerful.
Heughan added that the scene, filmed several years ago for the shows first season likely would not happen today. Times have changed he wrote. The c--- shot was unnecessary and did betray my trust in the creative team a bit.
The show which is in its sixth season premiered in 2014. It follows a British Army nurse during World War II who is suddenly transported from her 20th century second honeymoon to 1743 Scotland where she meets Heughans character and they fall in love. We are not playing around here Outlander showrunner Ron D. Moore said in an interview with Vulture in 2015 about the rape scene. This is the story. Theres a book that we are following, and this is part of the story that is absolutely necessary to that book. Theres really no way not to do it. This is a horrific situation, so it should be horrific.
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