.SkeltonSophie knew what she was getting herself into when she accepted her role on Outlander. The star looks back on her journey as Outlander_STARZ's BriannaFraser—from her casting to navigating conversations about trauma & recovery. Read more here:
Sophie Skelton knew what she was getting herself into when she accepted the role of Brianna Fraser on Outlander—or at least she thought she did. She had already spent hours poring through Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander books, which serve as the basis for the Starz show, before her very first audition in 2014. “I read from book two to book four,” Skelton says, remembering the way she feverishly scanned the pages for all of “Brianna’s bits.
When she arrives at StyleCaster’s offices in New York City, Skelton stands shorter than most members of the makeup and photo crew—and that’s with Louboutin heels on, their signature red soles peeking out with her every step. Her eyes, a deep honey brown, gaze around the small library where we’ve set up for the day. After getting acquainted, she pulls off the black peacoat she arrived in, revealing the lithe frame of a former dancer.
Six years and five seasons later, Skelton admits that Brianna can still “sometimes be a hard pill to swallow” for some viewers. “Sometimes as Sophie, I think Brianna takes things too far. I’m like, ‘Stop punching people, Bree,’” she says with a laugh. “But I have to be able to defend it.” Indeed, Skelton is one of Bree’s fiercest supporters—even, if not especially, during her character’s messier moments.
“I suppose the men have become the object of desire for a lot of fans, and sometimes they aren’t always so kind to the women, which is a shame,” Skelton continues. “I really hope that that starts to change. But at the same time, the majority of fans are super supportive.” In the future, Skelton says she wants to see perspectives shift enough so there’s “not such a stigma for women” to act the same way as their counterparts on screen.
Of course, healing is not always linear. But at the onset of Outlander season six, we meet a more “settled version” of Bree, Skelton says. Her character has grown up considerably on the series—she is now a wife and a mother herself—and she is searching for her place on Fraser’s Ridge, the impressive tract of land and community helmed by her father Jamie. In one memorable scene early in the season, Bree “invents” matches, an innovation yet to have been developed in 1770s America.
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