Exclusive: Outlander star Sam Heughan will star as the murderous tyrant in Macbeth, marking his debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and he tells Deadline that returning to the stage for the first time in 12 years “is the drug I’m looking for.”
The actor, who has cropped his locks for the role, says it’s “exciting” to be treading the boards again now that filming is compete on the eighth and final season of the time-traveling drama Outlander, in which he plays the the dashingly charming Jamie Fraser who finds true love with Claire, played by Caitríona Balfe.
During our conversation, Heughan suggested that Starz will show season 8 of Outlander “towards next year.” The prequel series Outlander: Blood of My Blood premieres on August 8, “so I feel it’d probably be out next year,” he reveals.
Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan in ‘Outlander’ (Starz)
Macbeth, to be directed by Daniel Raggett,...
The actor, who has cropped his locks for the role, says it’s “exciting” to be treading the boards again now that filming is compete on the eighth and final season of the time-traveling drama Outlander, in which he plays the the dashingly charming Jamie Fraser who finds true love with Claire, played by Caitríona Balfe.
During our conversation, Heughan suggested that Starz will show season 8 of Outlander “towards next year.” The prequel series Outlander: Blood of My Blood premieres on August 8, “so I feel it’d probably be out next year,” he reveals.
Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan in ‘Outlander’ (Starz)
Macbeth, to be directed by Daniel Raggett,...
- 6/3/2025
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Another post-Doctor Who role is secured for David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor actor joins the cast of a Radio 4 production of John Steinbeck's 1937 novella Of Mice and Men which is set for broadcast next year. Commissioned as part of BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial slot, Of Mice and Men will see Tennant play the quick-witted George Milton opposite Liam Brennan as his educationally challenged friend and Lennie Small in the story of two migrant workers in 1930s Californiaand will be broadcast in...
- 9/10/2009
- by Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com
- Kasterborous.com
David Tennant has signed up to star in a new radio production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. The Doctor Who actor will play George Milton, while Liam Brennan is cast as Lennie Small. It will be produced by BBC Radio Scotland and is scheduled to air on Radio 4 in early 2010. Steinbeck's classic novel about two migrants in 1930s California has been adapted on several occasions with Burgess (more)...
- 9/9/2009
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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