Outlander's main girl Caitriona Balfe feared she was 'too skinny' to be forged as Claire Fraser within the historic fantasy collection.
The Irish actress, 42, was forged alongside Sam Heughan - who performs her on-screen husband Highland warrior Jamie Fraser - together with her character being a agency fan favorite.
With a brand new season popping out on Starz quickly, Caitriona revealed she wasn’t at all times thought-about the proper actress for the job.
Caitriona, 42, who was a profitable runway mannequin earlier than leaving the business, does not truly match the bodily description of her character within the books.
Claire Fraser is described as being 5 foot 6 inches tall with mild brown hair curly and putting golden eyes, which is the other of Caitriona's 5 foot 9 peak, tall slender physique and darkish brown hair.
Nevertheless, the actress believes it is vital for actors to embody the 'essence' of a personality as a substitute of simply matching an outline.
“Claire is usually talked about as having a really plump rear finish and I do know they felt I used to be too tall and too skinny,” she admitted to RadioTimes.
Caitriona opened up about this fear to the Rolling Stone again in 2016 and stated: “I feel the preliminary response to my casting was like ‘Effectively, she's too tall, and he or she's too skinny, she does not have brown eyes and her hair's not curly!’
“The factor is, everybody has a subjective imaginative and prescient of what these characters are speculated to appear like. If you're casting something, hopefully they're on the lookout for individuals who embody the character in an essence means slightly than simply the bodily.
"However as soon as the present aired, the followers have have actually transferred their love over from the e book collection to our present, which is implausible."
Regardless of Claire being described as being 5 foot six and barely plumper within the books, followers have regarded previous the bodily variations and Caitriona has been accepted because the definitive model of the character.
In a latest interview with Radio Occasions Caitriona teased what's in retailer for her character within the upcoming season of Outlander.
Season six will see Claire cope with the aftermath of her horrific sexual assault on the finish of the final season as she battles PTSD.
She informed Radio Occasions: "Even earlier than we filmed it, we had already began the conversations about how vital it was to see the restoration and the fallout,"
"I am so grateful that our writers have been ready to provide numerous air time to that.
"I additionally suppose it is vital that we see a personality like Claire, who usually will get this moniker of being a 'sturdy feminine', that whether or not you look like sturdy on the surface, one thing like this may actually shake you to your core.
"For Claire, who's at all times been capable of compartmentalise and transfer on from traumas earlier than, we see her expertise PTSD and make some missteps alongside her journey of restoration."
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Outlander season 6 will premiere on StarzPlay within the UK on Sunday 6 March 2022.
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