Starz celebrated the Season 6 premiere of Outlander on Thursday with series stars Caitríona Balfe and her small-screen love Sam Heughan in Los Angeles and London, respectively. Which is par for the course for the two— well, for their characters Claire and Jamie who are often separated by time and space.

Balfe teased where viewers will find Claire in Season 6—based on Diana Gabaldon’s sixth novel from her Outlander series A Breath of Snow and Ashes— during a virtual panel ahead of the show’s March 6 premiere.

“When we first see Claire this season, she’s really—on the surface—trying to put forward this very brave face,” she shared. “Obviously the events of the end of last season were so horrific that it’s not something that anybody gets over. But for Claire, she’s always been this sort of rock for other people, someone who finds it very difficult to ask for help. So when we see her, she’s trying to tell everyone that she’s ok but we see that’s not the case. She’s unraveling and she’s not really willing to admit that to herself.”

She added, “We see that Claire starts to lean on some things she’s been using medically to give herself a little bit of a reprieve from the pain that she’s experiencing.”

Executive producer Matthew B. Roberts also appeared live from L.A. with Balfe, and Heughan was joined by Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin, Maril Davis, and Diana Gabaldon for the Q&A across the pond.

“The premiere is very important. It sets the tone for the entire season,” said Roberts. “It’s the first chapter in the book and you want to start that with a bang. Like Diana usually does, we move forward and try to pace the story out.”

He added, “It’s very important to introduce new characters which we do every season as Diana creates new characters… In episode 1, we went backward by going to another book where the Christies are introduced and we need to fill that fans in that don’t know them. So we give them a little bit of a backstory on the Christies, the new villains in town.”
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A Few Very Lucky Outlander Fans Will See the Season 6 Premiere Ahead of Schedule—and Across the Pond! Find Out More

A few very lucky Outlander fans in the UK will soon get the opportunity to experience a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of their favorite time-traveling romance/drama—the live and in-person Outlander Season 6 World Premiere Event at the Royal Festival Hall in London! Which, even more fortunately for those who get to attend in person, will take place two weeks ahead of the Season 6 premiere Sunday, March 6, on Starz.

Getting to sit inside a majestic venue in one of the world’s most beautiful and historic cities, hobnobbing with stars Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe while feasting your eyes, ears and heart on next Outlander episode a full two weeks ahead of schedule with a ticket that was absolutely free… sound too good to be true? Well, that’s exactly what StarzPlay UK (which carries the series abroad) offered fans the chance at in a Feb. 10 announcement.

In addition to enjoying a red carpet entrance, attendees will be treated to live performances by the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Philharmonia Chorus Choir. (Our guess? Get ready for a live rendition of the always rousing Outlander theme, “The Skye Boat Song.”) After the screening, the cast will head onstage for a live panel conversation, along with the executive producers, moderated by Scottish TV and radio presenter Edith Bowman. (An official list of which Outlander stars will also attend hasn’t been revealed, but given that both Balfe and Heughan mentioned the event on social media, we’re guessing they’ll both be there.)

U.S. fans might still have a way to witness the event, even if they can’t hop a plane across the pond right now. “U.S. fans, stay tuned for more info about how to attend virtually,” the @Outlander_STARZ Twitter account noted in a followup tweet about the event. It’s not clear whether the actual episode will be available for streaming, or just the red carpet and live panel. Either way, it’s the next best thing to being there in person, so we’ll take it!
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Longtime WME agent-turned-manager Brian DePersia has signed his first three clients under his new Cognition banner: Mahershala Ali, Caitriona Balfe and Tobias Menzies.

All three were clients he repped at WME, and they will continue to be shared by that agency. Deadline revealed February 1 that DePersia was ending a WME run that started in 2000, and saw him become partner in 2016. His move to management is an amicable one and he starts his new business with formidable talent and more coming.

Two-time Academy Award winner Ali recently starred in and produced Swan Song for Apple and next stars opposite Julia Roberts in Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind for Netflix, as well as the iconic title role in Blade for Marvel. He is also set to star in The Plot, an adaptation of the Jean Korelitz bestseller for a limited series at Hulu/Onyx. Ali continues to be repped by WME and Sloane Offer.

Balfe was recently nominated for SAG, Critics Choice and BAFTA awards for her work in the Kenneth Branagh-directed Belfast. Balfe, who last starred in Ford V Ferrari alongside Christian Bale and Matt Damon, continues to star as the lead in the Starz series Outlander, with Season 6 premiering March 6. Balfe continues to be repped by WME, Emptage Hallett, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Menzies won the Emmy in 2021 for his performance as Prince Phillip in the Netflix series The Crown, and he soon begins shooting the lead role in Apple’s limited series Manhunt, which chronicles Secretary of War Edwin Stanton’s hunt for John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln’s assassination. Menzies continues to be repped by WME and Conway Van Gelder Grant. [Source]

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Making Kenneth Branagh’s film was like being ”released into this world of Ken’s imagination,“ the actress said. For the fun to keep going is an added delight.

The plaudits for “Belfast” seem to be endless. They started in September at the Toronto film festival, where Kenneth Branagh’s coming-of-age-movie set in 1969 won the People’s Choice Award. And they’ve kept pouring in ever since, in the form of nominations from dozens of prominent critics groups and guilds. Earlier this month, SAG nominated the “Belfast” cast for best ensemble — in addition to singling out Caitriona Balfe for her impassioned turn as Ma, a no-nonsense mother of two boys caught in the crossfire of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

The sustained recognition Balfe has been enjoying has provided an unexpected second act to her “Belfast” experience (all while upping the Oscar buzz). “It’s been such a wild ride,” the actress told TheWrap. “When we started this journey a year ago, we were shooting during the pandemic. We never really knew what was going to become of this film. I think we were just all so focused on the fact we got to be working — and we got to be working on such an amazing project. That was the beauty of it at the time. The fact that it’s just kept going and is having all of these amazing accolades, it just feels really great.”

As Ma, Balfe struggles to hold together her tight-knit family while the Troubles engulf their once peaceful Belfast neighborhood. She cares for her young cinephile son Buddy (Jude Hill) and his older brother Will (Lewis McAskie), often with help from her delightful in-laws (Ciarán Hinds as Pop and Judi Dench as Granny) while her husband (Jamie Dornan) travels to England for work. The film is based on Branagh’s own early life in Northern Ireland, before he and his family moved to England when he was 9 to escape the brewing war. And this, of course, presented Balfe and her fellow actors with a significant responsibility.
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