'Outlander' Update: Claire Will Get Some Competition With Jaime's Ex-Lover

Not a week passes by without any updates on the development for Season 2 on Starz's hit fantasy drama series "Outlander." Just this week, another news came through indicating that Claire (Caitriona Balfe) might be getting some competition again for Jamie's (Sam Heughan) affection.

The latest scoop from TV Line saying that the show has signed French actress Margaux Chatelier to play Jamie's "beautiful and charming former lover" named Annalise de Marillac.

No further details are mentioned about the character however, the report said that the Chatelier will "soon jump into filming" for the upcoming season.

Annalise is just one of the many reported newcomers in the show. It was also found out that the network has enlisted another French actor, Marc Duret, to play a significant role in the series' new Parisian setting.

The "Big Blue" and "La Femme Nikita" star will take on the part of a certain Monsieur Joseph Duverny, a "well-dressed, middle-aged Minister of Finance to Louis XV."

It was further cited that the said character will come head to head with Jamie in the game of chess.

As for the plotline itself, the new chapter of the TV adaptation to Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" novel series will find Jamie and Claire getting heavily involved in the chaotic political turmoil in Paris, France.

"It's going to be a whole different tone, a whole different … playing the story as much more political. We're dealing with the Jacobite Rebellion. It's much more about deception, and lies within lies, and the gossips and the surroundings of Paris," executive producer Ronald Moore previously informed the press.