Roundtable Interview with Outlander Novel Author Diana Gabaldon and Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore
Diana Gabaldon: It would be nice to have a female character to play off of these guys, since it was essentially Scots vs. English during the Jacobi rising, let's make her an English woman. We'll have lots of conflict. So she walked into a cottage full of Scotsmen, one of them stood up and said, “My name's Dougal McKenzie, and who might you be?” And without my stopping to think, I just typed, “My name's Claire Elizabeth Beacham, and who the hell are you?” I said, “You don't sound at all like an 18th century person.” So I found with her for several pages, trying to beat her into shape and make her talk like an 18th century woman. She wasn't having any of it. She just kept making smart-ass modern remarks and she also started telling the story herself,...
Diana Gabaldon: It would be nice to have a female character to play off of these guys, since it was essentially Scots vs. English during the Jacobi rising, let's make her an English woman. We'll have lots of conflict. So she walked into a cottage full of Scotsmen, one of them stood up and said, “My name's Dougal McKenzie, and who might you be?” And without my stopping to think, I just typed, “My name's Claire Elizabeth Beacham, and who the hell are you?” I said, “You don't sound at all like an 18th century person.” So I found with her for several pages, trying to beat her into shape and make her talk like an 18th century woman. She wasn't having any of it. She just kept making smart-ass modern remarks and she also started telling the story herself,...
- 11/18/2013
- by Randall Unger
- JustPressPlay.net
Roundtable Interview with Outlander Novel Author Diana Gabaldon and Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore
Diana Gabaldon: It would be nice to have a female character to play off of these guys, since it was essentially Scots vs. English during the Jacobi rising, let's make her an English woman. We'll have lots of conflict. So she walked into a cottage full of Scotsmen, one of them stood up and said, “My name's Dougal McKenzie, and who might you be?” And without my stopping to think, I just typed, “My name's Claire Elizabeth Beacham, and who the hell are you?” I said, “You don't sound at all like an 18th century person.” So I found with her for several pages, trying to beat her into shape and make her talk like an 18th century woman. She wasn't having any of it. She just kept making smart-ass modern remarks and she also started telling the story herself,...
Diana Gabaldon: It would be nice to have a female character to play off of these guys, since it was essentially Scots vs. English during the Jacobi rising, let's make her an English woman. We'll have lots of conflict. So she walked into a cottage full of Scotsmen, one of them stood up and said, “My name's Dougal McKenzie, and who might you be?” And without my stopping to think, I just typed, “My name's Claire Elizabeth Beacham, and who the hell are you?” I said, “You don't sound at all like an 18th century person.” So I found with her for several pages, trying to beat her into shape and make her talk like an 18th century woman. She wasn't having any of it. She just kept making smart-ass modern remarks and she also started telling the story herself,...
- 11/18/2013
- by Randall Unger
- JustPressPlay.net
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