Who Diana Gabaldon Wanted As Jamie Fraser On Outlander Sam Heughan Wasn T Her First Choice
Of course, a lot of that could be attributed to the fact that Heughan was a relative unknown back when Gabaldon was writing Outlander, the first book in the series, which came out in 1991, and even the second book in the series, 1992’s Dragonfly in Amber. So who did Gabaldon want as Jamie Fraser? “Liam Neeson and Sir Sean Connery were the first contenders for Jamie,” Gabaldon admits. “Now this was years ago when my early books were optioned for a feature film....