• Brian McCardie, a supporting actor engaged on Outlander: Blood of My Blood, died unexpectedly in April 2024. He had not completed filming his episodes.
• Producers Matt Roberts and Maril Davis inform EW that they don’t have any plans to recast his position.
• As a substitute, they’ve created a brand new character to take over items of the deliberate storyline.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood desires to honor the reminiscence of late forged member Brian McCardie.

McCardie, who died unexpectedly in spring 2024, was in manufacturing on the Starz prequel collection when he handed away.

The Scottish actor appeared on Outlander again in its first season in 2015 as Sir Marcus MacRannoch, however he was taking over the brand new position of Isaac Grant in Blood of My Blood. Although he hadn't wrapped on his half for season 1, producers Matt Roberts and Maril Davis say they don’t have any plans to recast the character.

"We misplaced Brian McCardie," Roberts tells Leisure Weekly. "He's Isaac Grant and nobody may ever be Isaac Grant aside from him. We had deliberate story for him going ahead. If there’s going to be season 2, we’d've deliberate story for him as a result of he's simply such a strong character."

A personality new to the world of Outlander, Isaac Grant is the top of Clan Grant and the daddy of Malcolm Grant (Jhon Lumsden), a possible suitor for Ellen Mackenzie (Harriet Slater), eventual mom to Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan).

"He's the opposite facet of the coin of Lord Lovat," Roberts says of McCardie's character and his relationship with the wily father of Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), father of Jamie. "Each scene he was in, he simply introduced the extent up and also you simply go, 'Oh my god, I wish to see extra of him.'"

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To that finish, the artistic workforce determined that they needed to honor McCardie's work because it stands, somewhat than doing reshoots with a brand new actor. "It was a tragedy," continues Roberts. "However the one factor we needed to do after we took a beat to grieve was resolve that we wish to protect his work. We don't wish to recast and reshoot. We wish to protect that."

As a result of McCardie's scenes weren’t but completed, the writers have been despatched again to the drafting board. "We had to determine a option to go down the highway that we needed to go down, but it surely was going to be a parallel highway," says Roberts. "It wasn't going to be the identical highway. So, we created a complete new character to tackle a few of that storyline. However it received't be the identical storyline that we have been planning."

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Davis shared an announcement on behalf of the forged and crew within the days following McCardie's loss of life. "On behalf of the Blood of My Blood and Outlander household, we’re devastated by the information of Brian McCardie’s sudden passing," she wrote. "Brian was beloved on our set for his heat, kindness and great humorousness. He will probably be missed and our hearts exit to his household and everybody who knew him."

Blood of My Blood premieres on Starz on Aug. 8, and Davis and Roberts promise an exciting romance and escape for viewers.

"We’re going to [show] not just one nice love affair, however two nice amorous affairs and the way these parallel love tales intertwine and present us how we obtained to Jamie and Claire (Caitriona Balfe)," Davis beforehand advised EW. "And alongside the way in which, we're going to see the household dynamics of three totally different clans and see an incredible, rollicking journey."

"Destiny and future are phrases we lean on in Outlander," Davis added. "In Blood of My Blood, we now have the power to point out that Jamie and Claire aren't the one couple who’re destined to be collectively."

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