Edinburgh broadcaster and actor, Grant Stott, said he was thrilled to land a small part in Outlander – but can’t watch his scenes because he was so afraid he’d fluff his lines.
Stott played Captain Freeman in season four of the time travel TV series, which was shown in 2018.
He said he won the role despite TV acting experience amounting to little more than an episode of soap opera High Road in 1998.
Stott told presenter Nicola Meighan on the “A Kick Up the Arts” podcast that filming Outlander with stars Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe was a “brilliant experience”, but admitted the fear is written on his face.
Stott, whose character was later killed off, said: “Outlander was bonkers, it was absolutely nuts how that whole thing came about. It was a screen test I did at Summerhall, and the next thing I got the part.
“I had never been so terrified in all my life walking on to a set. Only once before when I did my one and only episode of High Road when I suddenly realised I had no clue what I was doing.
“I just put on this sense of bravado that I knew what I was doing… I still can’t really watch it back. You can see the fear in my eyes.
“I can remember every time they did that take and it was like ‘oh that was me, I’m just trying to make sure I get all my words out and I don’t get any words wrong’.
“That’s the face I do in Outlander as Captain Freeman as I’m talking to the great Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe, going ‘please don’t make me do this again’.”
Stott’s character was captain of the riverboat Sally Ann, which transports Jamie and Claire, played by Heughan and Balfe, to their new home at Fraser’s Ridge in North Carolina.
Stott, best known as a radio presenter, DJ and stage actor, later won a regular part in River City, appearing as Sam Spiller in the BBC Scotland soap in over 117 episodes since 2021.
He said the decision to stop the show had been “devastating”, adding: “I’m absolutely gutted it’s going to go but we’re determined to give it a good send off.”
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