The first season of Outlander premiered almost a decade ago in 2014. Ultimately, all full frontal shots were “left on the cutting room floor” in post-production and those images never aired. Moore - came to a compromise where Jamie would only be shown fully naked after the rape. Eventually, Heughan and the creative team - which includes show creator Ronald D. The actor’s pushback appeared to cause quite the debate on set. Heughan said he argued against the shot, saying that “nudity sexualized a horrific experience” for his character. “This wasn't a moment where I felt that being naked would add to the horror of what Jamie undergoes in that castle dungeon as a form of punishment, subjugation, and humiliation," he wrote. He did, however, think that a scene at the end of the first season where his character gets brutally raped by Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies) didn’t require the audience to see his penis. Insider was first to report that in Heughan’s memoir, Waypoints: My Scottish Journey, the actor shared that he knew from the get-go that the show didn’t shy away from sexual violence. Sam Heughan, aka Jamie Fraser on Outlander, has revealed that his first season on the Starz show had a scene that initially had an “unnecessary” full frontal shot of him.
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