OUTLANDER DUAL ROLE AUDITION PHOTOS: SHOCKING NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN ORIGINALS!

Tobias Menzies plays his dual roles extremely well. He is brilliant, without a doubt.

PROFESSOR FRANK RANDALL/CAPTAIN 'BLACK JACK' JOHNATHAN RANDALL

But did you know, Starz had quite a few other actors audition for dual roles as well? Here is an exclusive peek at those audition photos...
                

*REMEMBER, THE ROLES ARE FROM THE BOOKS' DESCRIPTIONS

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 CLAIRE FALLING THROUGH THE STONES/ADSO

           

              BRIANNA/ADSO

ROLLO/COLUM...ADSO/DOUGAL

GENEVA DUNSANY/PARISIAN WHORE ACCESORY

CLAIRE/THE WHITE SOW

CLAIRE/DONAS

MASTER RAYMOND/APOTHECARY STUFFED FROG

LORD JOHN GREY/ADSO

STEPHEN BONNET/BRAN (JAMIE'S LALLYBROCH DOG)

MR. WILLOUGHBY/EXTRA IN THE KING'S ZOO

 

  STEPHEN BONNET/SHIP'S RAT CATCHER

KING LOUIS/ROLLO

  
BEARDSLEY TWINS/RANDOM WILDLIFE

BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE/STRAY DOG

STUFFED CROCODILE IN MSTR. RAYMOND'S SHOP/DONAS

  
STEPHEN BONNET'S SHIP THE GLORIANA/PIRATE SHIP

JARED FRASER'S COOK/LALLYBROCH BARN CAT 

WENTWORTH STAMPEDE COOS/LALLYBROCH COOS

*CLICK THIS CUTIE COO AUDITION CLIP

ROLLO/ABBOTT ALEXANDER FRASER

ABBEY NUN/JOCASTA'S RANCH COW

DONAS/MRS. BAIRD

YOUNG STEPHEN BONNET/LALLYBROCH PIG

MALVA/MALVA *YES, I LOATHE HER

  
REV WAKEFIELD/FOREST CREATURE

ROGER MAC/ROLLO

CLAIRE/EXTRA WW2 NURSE/BOUTON

        
STEPHEN BONNET/IAN MURRAY/EXTRA FOR JAMAICA SCENES

DUKE OF SANDRINGHAM/PARISIAN PROSTITUTE

ROLLO/BOURON/CATTLE EXTRAS (3 pics)

  
DONAS/IAN MURRAY

 STEPHEN BONNET/EXTRA FOREST CREATURE

 

CLAIRE/AMERICAN COUNTRYSIDE COWS

JENNY/LALLYBROCH HEN

FERGUS IN PRIS/LALLYBROCH BARN CAT/ADSO

  

SCOTTISH FLAG UNICORN/ROLLO

  

DONAS/SCOTTISH FLAG UNICORN (PRE-VIAGRA)

IAN MURRAY JR./ROLLO

DOUGAL/FOREST IMP 

 
ULYSSES/GEILLIS'S BLACK CAT (SHE SURELY HAD ONE!)

COLUM/BOUTON

JAMIE IN BATTLE MODE/STAR WARS TROO...OOPS! WRONG SHOW!

STEPHEN BONNET/THE FISH JAMIE TICKLED (PART 1)

MARY HAWKINS/LALLYBROCH DINNER

ROLLO/THE FISH THAT JAMIE TICKLED (PART 2)

WENTWORTH GOVERNOR SIR FLETCHER GORDON/LALLYBROCH PIG

  COLUM/BOUTON

DONAS/GIRAFFE IN KING LOUIS ZOO (WAY WAY IN THE BACK...)

MURTAGH/STRAY DOG IN SCOTLAND

JAMIE & BREE/ORANGUTANS AT KING LOUIS ZOO

ROLLO/LALLYBROCH SHEEP

                                    
                                MOTHER HILDEGARDE/DONAS

                     
                        THE BLACK WATCH/CULLODEN WARRIORS

                     

 MRS. FITZGIBBONS/LALLYBROCH TEA SET

                                              
                                               GEILLIS/ADSO

JAMIE'S GHOST/EXTRA FOREST CREATURE (WINTER SCENES ONLY)

                                   

  
FRENCH SOLDIER/BOUTON

ROBBIE McNABB SR./EXTRA WOODLAND CREATURE

FERGUS/BOUTON

CREW MEMBER PIRATE SHIP/SHIP MOUSER

JAMIE FORMAL WEAR/PARIS HOUSE CAT

  
SIMON LOVET/CASTLE POOCH

WENTWORTH PRISONER/ADSO/BJR VICTIM

BOUTON/CREW CONCESSION SNACK

JAMIE/FOREST BIRD

LADY ANNABELLE McCRANNOCH/PARIS POOCH

FRANK/MI6 SECRET MOUSER

UNCLE LAMB/KING LOUIS ZOO PET

QUEEN MARIE OF FRANCE/PARISIAN STREET CAT

GEILLIS/LALLYBROCH STREET CAT

STEPHEN BONNET/PIRATE CREW MATE/FOREST CREATURE

NESSIE/DONAS

PIRATE CREW/STREET STRAY

MRS. BUG/GARDEN INSECT 

LAOGHAIRE (LEGHAIR)/MILL POND FROG

BOUTON/IAN MURRAY SR/PIRATE CREW/STEPHEN BONNET

JEMMY/KING'S ZOO PET

BLACK JACK RANDALL/ANY LAWYER ROLE BUT NED GOWEN'S

  
CEILIDH PERFORMER/FOREST WILDLIFE

BEAR McCREARY/MOUNTAIN BEAR

TERRY DRESBACH/ADSO

RON MOORE/EXTRA IN THE KING'S ZOO

DIANA GABALDON/HEDGEHOG JOKE PROP

Good luck to all these animal actor in their future endeavors and remember...like Clarence the Donkey...you can start small in memes, but make it big if you reach for the Starz:

12 TIPS FOR NEW OUTLANDER FANS *by an Former Outlander Admin

TIPS FOR NEW OUTLANDER FANS

1) Say goodbye to your life as you now know it. It will be forever changed. Whether it is how you see your husband (in comparison to Jamie Fraser or Murtagh, Dougal, etc…) or how you will view corn. Change is inevitable.

2) You will no longer enjoy anyone else’s company and the very thought of putting your book down, or turning off the show, will make your palms sweat, heart race and you may, or may not, develop a nervous twitch.

3) Managing your time, laundry, family meals, after-school activities (if you have children), housework and basic life functions will become secondary to finding out what part of Claire, Jamie is going to nibble on next.

4) The physical concerns of being an Outlander fan will soon become apparent: 1) you have gained 46 pounds because you cannot read or watch Outlander without wine/cheese and other munchies …and it is illegal in 32 States and Canada (and all European countries ending in a vowel) to do either without an IV of melted milk chocolate dripping steadily into your arm (nuts/almonds not recommended as they get stuck in the tube) OR, conversely, 2) you lose an average of 4 pounds a week from not being able to stop reading/watching long enough to actually get up and find food to eat. If you have nobody close by to toss you a muffin or slide a pizza under your door once in a while, make it 8 pounds.

5) Stock up on Kleenex tissue or double ply toilet paper. Depending on how hard you tend to cry at gut wrenching scenes and how hard you blow your schnoz, either will suffice. Tissues are more polite and aesthetically appealing and recommended if you are reading/watching with company but if all alone, I find 8 rolls of toilet paper fit on a broom handle and can lean conveniently close by your chair for easy access. You can roll the tissue right off the broom handle. Have a large garbage can nearby as well and arrange with City Hall for daily garbage pick-up. It costs extra to have them actually come into your living room to gather the can. But worth it.

6) Fair warning ought to be given, in writing, to one’s husband/ boyfriend/ girlfriend/lover/cute-new-stranger, that explains clearly that Outlander tends to horn up the masses and rampant spontaneous sex is virtually guaranteed. Acceptance in the fact that one may be screwing like rabid rabbits at least once a week (dependent on one’s tv schedule) or nightly (dependent on ones reading habits or ability to record shows). Extra Life Insurance is recommended for mature coupes or seniors.

7) By all means, join an Outlander online book/show club for they are SO much fun and can be a source of amazing friendship and camaraderie, but ALWAYS READ THE RULES of the group first before joining. They are as varied as the groups themselves and believe me when I say, you do NOT want to ask for a Spoiler Alert in a group that clearly allows Spoilers. Hospitals wards are overflowing with victims of that unforgivable faux pas.

8) At the risk of sounding indelicate, one may want to stock up on batteries for their ‘Pleasure Sticks’ should any of the aforementioned sex/love partners be unwilling, unable or uncomfortable with your reading/tv based sexual needs. Best stock up on Vaseline as well. Don’t want to be starting any fires. *NOTE: vibrator sales have rocketed since Starz introduced Outlander to the fandoms, so a wide variety is available in Plaid and Corn shapes…

9) Invest in a storage facility close to home, as you will be unable to stop buying used books of Diana Gabaldon’s, justifying to yourself that you WILL send them off as gifts or starter sets to friends or family who are not yet fans …someday. Some year. Whenever. Each book is like a wee best friend and WHO can leave a best friend alone on a table…unappreciated and unwanted? *Especially when the original one cost you $35.00 and that one is in the 50 cent box! Exactly. 

10) If not yet married, try and marry a man named Jamie. It will save you a lot of embarrassment and perhaps exorbitant divorce lawyer fees when you inevitably scream (or moan) out his name in your sleep or during wild jungle sex. *If this is too late for you, here is a toll free number for my old lawyer: 1-800-NOT-JAMIE

11) Start saving your spare change and/or gift money in a jar immediately. You will want to tour Scotland someday and even if you have to skimp and save until you are 108, you will still want to go. The romance of the Scottish Highlands will seep into your bones and pull you forever, so seriously, start saving now.

12) And finally, if at all possible, join a church or a cult that practices serenity, forbearance and forgiveness, because it takes the patience of a fucking Saint to wait until the next book or season is out.

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OUTLANDER: THE REAL REASON #SHARKLANDER IS GOING TO HAPPEN

OUTLANDER has become shark bait. 

If ‘shark bait’ means fodder for Armageddon.

Diana Gabaldon’s casual pseudo-announcement of the earth-shattering changes to her books’ adaptations on Starz has caused a ripple in the Cosmos unrivaled in recent literary/cable television history. A ripple so widely felt and feared that The F̶a̶n̶d̶u̶m̶b̶  Fandom has battened down the hatches and cleared the decks (read: stocked up on wine, tissues and chocolate).

Their world was rocked. And not in the good way.

To be exact, Diana (the author of the phenomenal books of the Outlander Series *for those who stumbled on to this post in foggy haze of soon-to-be-legal marijuana looking for pictures of sharks {sorry to disappoint}) made a comment on an online forum she frequents called Compuserve and mentioned, in passing, that there would be some upcoming changes and may, or may not have, used the Happy Days Term 'Jump The Shark'. The media got hold of it and well...let's just say I am not the only person with an over-active hyperbole gene:

I am not privy to the exact wording of the online comment but after searching online for approximately 4 seconds, I decided that she said something like this: “In upcoming episodes, Starz is making Jamie blonde with a fake beauty mark that travels around his face from scene to scene. It will fun to guess where it turns up next, and it’ll help the ratings…”

This of course, caused a meltdown of epic proportions, because we ALL know wandering beauty marks is hardly original (ever watch Men in Tights?) and ‘changes’ really means: complete story-line destruction and sniper-like character annihilation! Sorta. Well, not really...whatever. Anyway...

 *click to enlarge all pics

*is this the REAL meaning behind the dreaded 'mark me' term? *gag*

The 'announcement' *cough cough* had fans running at breakneck speed to their Photoshop apps:

meme courtesy of Melissa Wagner

 

Doctor Gabaldon was quick to try and calm our Collective Fear (the name of a new punk rock band in England, by the way, made up four Outlander fans who stopped watching the show after Claire sang 'Boogie Oogie Bugle Boy') and posted this recantation within hours of the explosion of #Sharklander:*sorry if it blurry...I think she was crying when she wrote it

After another 4 seconds of intense research, I uncovered the bitter truth of what is REALLY going to change in an upcoming episode (probably 7, as the theme song for that episode is the theme music to JAWS)…. and it isn’t anything 'Jamie':

The shark jump is…FRANK TRAVELS THROUGH TIME TO RESCUE AND FIGHT FOR CLAIRE!

Tobias Menzies’ portrayal of Frank Randall (boring and rather inattentive in the books, but on the show is The King of Husbands with a sensual voice that sounds like a heated Rémy Martin Black Pearl Louis XIII Cognac, if a Rémy Martin Black Pearl Louis XIII Cognac could talk) has catapulted him to the top of *MAW’s wet dreams worldwide. (*Middle Aged Women). He has become such a hot commodity that Starz producers decided to re-write the books to allow Frank to Time Travel through the Stones at Craigh Na Dun. 

A brilliant academic and a Professor of History, Frank discovers what really happened to Claire and understands the dangers she must be facing. He goes flippyapeshit with his need to rescue her and finally uncovers an ancient hidden recipe for passing through Time, found in an old battered cookbook of Mrs. Graham (it was penciled in right under Wee Scotch Pies...so yummy...) and finds a way to get to Claire in the 1700's: "Crushed diamonds or rubies, ingested with 2 cloves of garlic, half a cup of raw haggis and 8 cans of Fresca on Halloween night between 6:45 p.m. and 7:08 p.m; this will allow Men-Only to pass through the Stones to another era but, and this is crucial, they must be wearing an apron and curlers in their hair and have their penises tucked well out of sight in a sock puppet of Lambchop." *note: the addition of Fresca to the script was controversial as it isn't really known if it is really that ancient...

Lambchop

I am not sure why Lambchop was used in the story but I have already purchased stocks on the company that makes them, so I don't really care.

Not much else is revealed in this surprising stray from the book except to say that Frank will eventually be sent back to 1945 by Geillis under a Forget All This Shit Spell and will have been gone only 6 days, which nobody notices except Rev Wakefield who assumes Frank is either working undercover for the still-functioning but Top Secret MI6 Spy Agency, or drinking himself silly in a string of bars. He is baffled however, when he finds Frank semi-conscious in the back alley of The Pubic Penguin Pub, wearing only a potato sack apron, 2 rudimentary hair rollers and a sock puppet made of lambswool over his penis.

***JUICY TIDBIT!!

The meeting of Black Jack Randall and Frank, his 20th Century kith & kin, is a real mind-blowing heart-stopper...

*My apologies to anyone who believes any of the above and suffered any form of distress. Let me buy you a drink sometime...perhaps after you are released from that place in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.