Charlie Hiett and Gary Young have joined the cast of Starz’s Outlander season three. According to Starz, Charlie Hiett has been tapped to play Captain Thomas Leonard and Gary Young has signed on as Mr. Willoughby.
The popular award-winning series stars Caitriona Balfe as Claire, Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser, and Tobias Menzies as Frank Randall. The season three Outlander cast also includes David Berry as Lord John Grey, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield, Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall, John Bell as Young Ian, and Wil Johnson as Joe Abernathy.
The series is based on Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling Outlander book series, with Ronald D. Moore adapting Gabaldon’s novels for the series. The 13-episode third season began production last August in Scotland and in March will move to South Africa to finish filming.
Mr. Willoughy character description: “A Chinese man with a deep knowledge of Eastern medicine, Mr. Willoughby is a talented poet in exile, with an even deeper love of women. Willoughby, a confidante of Jamie Fraser, speaks English well, but hides it when it suits him. He is even more of an outsider than Claire in 18th century Scotland.”
Captain Thomas Leonard character description: “Leonard is the inexperienced, by-the-book de facto captain of the Artemis. Promoted quickly due to the untimely deaths of his commanding officers, Leonard takes his job very seriously, though it weighs heavily on his young shoulders. A third lieutenant, he never thought he would be the captain of a man-of-war ship. Above all, he wants to do what is right by the British Navy — whether or not it is right by his own personal morals.”
The Season 3 Plot: The story picks up right after Claire (Balfe) travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden reappearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank (Menzies). Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of Claire. As the years pass, Jamie (Heughan) and Claire attempt to make a life apart from one another, each haunted by the memory of their lost love. The budding possibility that Claire can return to Jamie in the past breathes new hope into Claire’s heart… as well as new doubt.
Separated by continents and centuries, Claire and Jamie must find their way back to each other. As always, adversity, mystery, and adventure await them on the path to reunion. And the question remains: when they find each other, will they be the same people who parted at the standing stones, all those years ago?
