New casting updates for the upcoming and highly-anticipated second season of Starz’s hit drama TV series Outlander has surfaced online this week.
The report from TV Line said that the show has issued a casting call for the character in Diana Gabaldon’s second book of the Outlander series, Dragonfly in Amber, on which Season 2 is based.
The character in question is Brianna, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) “ginger-haired, statuesque 20-year-old daughter” and who happens to carry a Randall family name.
The description given in the book is that Brianna is an American citizen who is,
“strong-minded, intelligent beyond her years with an effortless charm and sparkling sense of humor (traits inherited from both her mother and father. She also has a scholastic mindset, with a healthy dose of American strength, having been born and bred in Boston under the watchful eye of professor and historian Frank Randall.”
The role, the site added, calls for actresses who stands 5’8″ and over. They need to be able to portray the role in question as an “earthy and grounded and not girly” but “with the experience and vulnerability” of a young woman. As for the hair color, the casting notice says that it shouldn’t be an issue as the show will apply dye if needed.
In the early parts of the novel, Brianna, who is also being called Bree, exists in the 1960s-era Scotland.
The further casting details states that,
“Brianna has secretly followed her mother back in time to find the father she never met and the family she never knew.”
If the current cast is any indication of how tirelessly they work to cast the perfect actors, we can rest easily knowing we will have the very best “Brianna” that is out there!
Outlander Season 2 is slated to premiere back to Starz in 2016. Stay tuned for more updates.
