30 Things آپ Didn't Know About Outlander 

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We know you\'ve been waiting patiently for your weekly dose of

every Sunday night, but there\'s more to the show—and the book series on which it\'s based—than meets the eye. Here, 30 things you didn\'t know about Starz\'s outrageously sexy time-traveling period drama.

There are eight books in the series and author Diana Gabaldon said she\'ll write two more. That means we could be looking at a total of 10 seasons.

Gabaldon’s books were optioned as a movie four times before producer Ronald D. Moore offered to make a TV series, Gabaldon revealed in

almost wasn\'t filmed in Scotland. Before showrunner Moore convinced Starz to let the show film there, Eastern Europe and New Zealand were considered for shooting options, Moore revealed in

The opening credits use the lyrics and tune from a very famous Scottish song, "The Skye Boat Song," which is about Bonnie Prince Charlie fleeing Scotland after the Battle of Culloden. Composer Bear McCreary changed the opening line from "lad" to "lass" to reflect Claire\'s journey on the show.

Sam Heughan was the first actor cast on the show, and though Gabaldon wasn’t part of the casting process, she was wary of Heughan as Jamie—at first. "Frankly, I thought he looked bizarre," she wrote on her website of her initial reaction. But, "five seconds later, Sam Heughan was GONE, and it was Jamie Fraser right there in front of me. True. No costume, no makeup, no props, nothing but cues from an offstage casting director, and…it was him."

Starz wanted casting director Suzanne Smith to ensure Tobias Menzis was OK with playing someone as despicable as Black Jack Randall. “‘He laughed and said, ‘Of course not,’ Smith told

. “British actors don’t think of it that way, because they want to be stretched. They know when it comes down to it that it will be handled in the right way.”

It took a long time to cast Claire, Moore told

, but as soon as actress Caitriona Balfe was in the room with Sam Heughan, the producers knew they found their Claire. "With Cait, it was very apparent, very quickly, that this was going to work,” he said. It’s Balfe\'s first-ever lead role in film or TV.

scene shot was Claire tending to wounded soldiers on VE-Day. “There was sort of an excitement in the air," Balfe told

. I think there was also relief because I was so untested.”

Claire and Jamie\'s wedding night took five days to shoot. Director Anna Foerster told MarieClaire.com that they choreographed every movement for the sex scene: "The actors felt comfortable—they knew where to move, which direction to fall on the bed, how their hair was falling so I could capture it—it\'s very technical."

seven times for parts including Renly Baratheon, Loras Tyrell, and members of the Night\'s Watch. "I\'d always get so close!" he told

. "I\'d be like, \'Guys, just give me a sword!\'"

, author George R.R. Martin is friends with Diana Gabaldon and he\'s a fan of Outlander

Moore specified that the only time red could be used in Season 1 was for the Redcoats, production designer Jon Gary Steele told BAZAAR.com. Costume designer Terry Dresbach (who is also Moore\'s wife) told

Scotland, "The one costume we could have rented lots of was Redcoats, but we couldn’t because Ron [Moore] didn’t like the color of red. Instead, we had to dye fabric to his color specifications and make our own Redcoats. He wanted a deeper, richer red rather than a bright cherry/candy apple red.”

Gabaldon made a cameo in Season 1 Episode 4 as the prickly Iona MacTavish.

The scene where Jenny describes pregnancy is the first part of

Diana Gabaldon wrote. It wasn\'t even a book at that point; Gabaldon was trying to win an argument with a man about what pregnancy really feels like.

In Season 1 Episode 15, Frazer Hines has a cameo as Sir Fletcher Gordon. Hines played Jamie McCrimmon on

all those years ago (the first book was published in 1991). In fact, it was Gabaldon\'s idea to cast Hines in

Balfe walked in the Victoria\'s Secret Fashion Show in 2002.

Costume designer Terry Dresbach designed Claire\'s Season 2 Paris wardrobe with the 1940s in mind, drawing inspiration from Dior, Balenciaga, and Balmain. "We want to imagine that Claire goes into a dress salon in Paris in the 18th century and says, "Take this off! Move this! Why don\'t we put the flowers down here like this?" She is a modern woman," Dresbach told BAZAAR.com.

Dresbach\'s costume department made 10,000 item for Season 2 alone.

The streets of modern-day Prague stood in for 18th-century Paris in Season 2.

Actress Kimberly Smart didn\'t actually pierce her nipples for Season 2\'s infamous swan dress. They\'re prosthetics.

Heughan is a natural blonde while Balfe\'s hair is naturally straight.

to study Balfe and Heughan for her role as their daughter, Brianna. "Brianna is going to be very much like Jamie. But I wanted to make sure that his mannerisms were genetic things that you could do without ever having seen the person," she told BAZAAR.com. "With Caitriona, I wanted to copy little traits that she did. She folds her arms, she does this little lick of the mouth—she does things you can pick up from somebody by being around them every day."

Tobias Menzies slept 12 hours after the first day of filming the Battle of Culloden because of the intensity of the shoot. "There wasn’t the opportunity to get doubles in, nor did the actors really want them,” director Brendan Maher told

In an email interview, Gabaldon told BAZAAR.com that Season 3 Episode 4, "Of Lost Things," is one of her favorites—so much so that she watched it over and over. "It was true to the characters (at least in the Jamie part of the story) and kept virtually all of the original plotline intact—pretty rare," she wrote. "And as I told Sam when we did a video interview at San Diego Comic Con: \'You broke my heart with the final scene.\'"

Though both his characters died in Season 3, Menzies says he\'s open to returning to the show. "They may have me back," he told BAZAAR.com. "I have no news of that, but I suppose with a show that can travel anywhere in time, you never know."

Claire and Frank\'s home in Boston is the same set as Jamie and Claire\'s Paris apartment...

... And Jamie\'s print shop in is the same set as Master Raymond\'s apothecary from Season 2.

It takes makeup artist Wendy Kemp Forbes two hours and 20 minutes to do Heughan\'s hair, makeup, and back scars.

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