What Caitriona Balfe Did With Her First Major Outlander Paycheck — It Was Nothing Like What Anyone Expected

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What Caitriona Balfe Did With Her First Major Outlander Paycheck — It Was Nothing Like What Anyone Expected

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What Caitriona Balfe Did With Her First Major Outlander Paycheck — It Was Nothing Like What Anyone Expected

Caitriona Balfe's path to Outlander ran through years of modeling before acting became the center of her professional life. She was successful in that world — successful enough to have had financial stability that many actors beginning a dramatic career don't have.

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The first Outlander paycheck was not, for her, the difference between scarcity and security in the way it is for some actors at career turning points.

What she chose to do with it was therefore not about need. It was about meaning.

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