An Extra on the Outlander Set Wrote About What It Was Really Like — The Part the Production Never Expected Anyone to Publish

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An Extra on the Outlander Set Wrote About What It Was Really Like — The Part the Production Never Expected Anyone to Publish

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An Extra on the Outlander Set Wrote About What It Was Really Like — The Part the Production Never Expected Anyone to Publish

Background artists — extras — occupy a specific and unusual position on a television set. They are present for everything. They stand in the background of scenes between the lead actors, they populate the world the story requires, and they are professionally expected to be invisible.

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Not just on screen, but in terms of what they observe. The understanding is unspoken but clear: what happens on a working set stays there.

One person who worked as a background artist on Outlander during the middle seasons wrote about the experience afterward.

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