Warning: This text incorporates spoilers about Friday’s episode of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, “Windfall.”

A Fraser by every other title would scent as candy…

In Friday evening’s premiere of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) and Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) clap eyes on one another for the primary time — and from then on, their destiny is sealed. From the primary second they see one another, they’re enamored, and by the point they meet alone and inform one another their names, it is too late — they’re hopelessly in love with one another. Sadly for them, they arrive from rival clans and their fathers hate one another.

It is all very Romeo and Juliet, a reality which Slater identified at Comedian-Con, nevertheless it offers the actors loads of juicy moments to play, notably throughout Brian and Ellen’s assembly on a bridge the place they maintain arms for the primary time.

“The theme of forbidden love is so enjoyable to play,” Roy tells Leisure Weekly. “One thing so simple as a hand maintain or touching was — that is not one thing you do except you have been going to be with that individual.”

The stakes are raised even greater when it is touching somebody who is actually your loved ones’s mortal enemy. When Brian and Ellen reveal their surnames to one another, the appears on their faces say greater than phrases ever may, as they understand the error they’ve made falling for one another.

“That’s unlucky,” Ellen tells Brian when he confesses his parentage to her. “Tis,” he agrees.

“Earlier than he touches her hand, he realizes that that is Ellie Mackenzie, and that is the worst attainable person who I may have probably fallen for,” Roy says. “Then, he has the boldness to really contact her hand with out even asking her, nevertheless it’s nearly like Brian knew that she wished that as nicely, with out phrases being spoken, till he will get nervous and second-guesses himself.”

Fortunate for Brian, Ellen is a lady who is aware of what she desires.

“She pulls him again,” Slater provides. “It is nearly like an entire dance between the arms. It’s choreographed. There was just like the slight contact and then the pulling away and then pulling him again in.”

Furthering the Romeo and Juliet comparability, the second calls to thoughts what Juliet says when she first meets Romeo at a masked ball: “For saints have arms that pilgrims’ arms do contact. And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.”

Juliet, nevertheless, would not know who Romeo is but, not like Brian and Ellen.

Followers could have anticipated, or not less than hoped, that Brian and Ellen would possibly kiss throughout this primary second. However Slater thinks it is even sexier and extra thrilling that they do not.

“I really like the truth that they do not kiss in that scene,” she says. “You need them to, however they do not as a result of even simply to contact arms is big for them. She should not have even been there with out a chaperone. The stakes are actually, actually excessive.”

Making the stakes even greater is the truth that Ellen’s father has not too long ago died, leaving the query of who will be the subsequent laird of Clan MacKenzie an open one. Her brothers, Dougal (Sam Retford) and Colum (Seamus McLean Ross), every believes they need to lead the clan, however it’s Ellen who their father raised to be the laird. Even when her intercourse makes it inconceivable.

“She was very clearly his favourite, and he gave her an training,” Slater displays. “She’s totally outfitted to be laird, besides that she will’t as a result of she’s a lady.”

In some methods, Slater says her father’s teachings and favoritism are the best tragedy of Ellen’s life, not falling for the improper man.

“It is nearly the worst factor he may have accomplished,” she notes. “Now she is totally conscious of her potential and how life may be, besides that it will probably’t. She makes use of the wits that she has in different methods to affect her brothers, and in the end, to assist herself get out of horrible conditions that she finds herself in as a result of of her brothers largely.”

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And in the event you suppose her brothers have been taking part in quick and unfastened along with her hand in marriage within the premiere, simply wait.

“They in a short time use her as a pawn so as to type their very own alliances and safe the lairdship,” Slater teases. “And all she actually desires is to be with Brian, however she’s torn as a result of she desires to shield the clan on the identical time.”

Outlander: Blood of My Blood airs at 8 p.m. on Fridays on Starz and is out there to stream on the Starz app.