Outlander prequel star, Harriet Slater, has revealed the cast were visited by Caitríona Balfe ( Claire Fraser ) on the set of Blood of my Blood as filming for the series gets underway in Scotland.
Caitríona Balfe ( Claire Fraser ) has started filming the 8th and final season of Outlander while the prequel Blood of my Blood is also being filmed in Scotland . The two productions film in the same studio at Wardlaw Studios in Cumbernauld .
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Filming for the new series Blood of my Blood started at Doune Castle and then Glasgow earlier this year and will chronicle the love stories of Jamie’s parents, Ellen MacKenzie (Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) in 18th century Scotland, and Claire’s parents, Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) in World War I England.
Speaking to promote her role in the new horror film Tarot, the actress shared that Balfe, who portrays Claire Fraser in Outlander, visited the set and said it was “really lovely to meet her”.
“She came and said hello to everyone and was checking how we were all doing . She seemed excited by the whole thing .
Outlander and the prequel Blood of my Blood film interior scenes in the same building, the Wardpark studios in Cumbernauld . 
” It’s a long shoot. I think it’s so nice that we have the solid foundation of Outlander, but it has an entirely new cast and feels very much like its own thing,” she explained.
“We have the same team as Outlander and we film in the same building, but aside from that, our paths don’t really cross much at all.”
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