'Outlander' Casting News, Update: Season 2 Casts the 'Dragonfly in Amber' Character Brianna
New casting updates for the upcoming and highly-anticipated second season of Starz's hit drama TV series "Outlander" has surfaced online this week.
The report from TV Line said that the show has issued a casting call for the character in Diana Gabaldon's second book of the "Outlander" series," "Dragonfly in Amber," on which Season 2 is based.
The character in question is Brianna, Claire (Caitrona Balfe) and Jamie's (Sam Heughan) "ginger-haired, statuesque 20-year-old daughter" and who happens to carry a Randall family name.
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The publication went on to divulge on the character's description. It is indicated that Brianna is an American citizen who is "strong-minded, intelligent beyond her years with an effortless charm and sparkling sense of humor (traits inherited from both her mother and father. She also has a scholastic mindset, with a healthy dose of American strength, having been born and bred in Boston under the watchful eye of professor and historian Frank Randall."
The role, the site added, calls for actresses who stands 5'8" and over. They need to be able to portray the role in question as an "earthy and grounded and not girly" but "with the experience and vulnerability" of a young woman. As for the hair color, the casting notice says that it shouldn't be an issue as the show will apply dye if needed.
In the early parts of the novel, Brianna, who is also being called Bree, exists in the 1960s-era Scotland.
TV Line further noted the casting details stating that "Brianna has secretly followed her mother back in time to find the father she never met and the family she never knew."
Sony Pictures (via TV Line) meanwhile did confirm that the Starz programming is currently casting for the character.
"Outlander" Season 2 is slated to premiere back to Starz in 2016. Stay tuned for more updates.
