She continued: “They said they were sending me the audition tapes, but I was on the road, so I googled him on my iPhone as we were driving.
“At this point he had relatively little film work and just a series of extremely bizarre still photos – his IMDb page is strange.
“He is a very magnetic, charming young man and a very chameleonic actor, but he’s different, physically different, in every part. Some of his photos are strange!
“I was sitting there typing, ‘This man is grotesque, what are you thinking?’ But that’s a running joke with Sam and I, now.”
Outlander seasons 1-5 are available to stream on Amazon Prime now.
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