Whereas followers might have a methods to go till they bid adieu to Starz’s Outlander — with Season 7, Half 2 premiering this Friday, earlier than the eighth and last season drops someday subsequent yr — the present’s solid has already wrapped manufacturing on the sequence.

Sure, there’s nonetheless a season and a half to go for Jamie and Claire Fraser, as they proceed to navigate the American Revolution on the beloved time-hopping, romantic drama. However, for actors Sam Heughan, Caitriona Balfe, John Bell, Richard Rankin, Sophie Skelton, Charles Vandervaart and the remainder of the solid, it is all however over.

TooFab caught up with the celebs forward of Season 7’s continuation, the place they revealed what it was like for them as they wrapped on their last scenes for Season 8.

“There have been tears flowing, actually. It was very, very emotional,” Bell, who performs Younger Ian, instructed TooFab. “I feel it was really seeing Caitriona form of break down with me and I simply let it out.”

“Folks that day have been like, ‘Life goes on, every little thing shall be okay,’” he recalled. “Yeah, I get that. Issues in fact transfer on, we nonetheless acquired rather a lot to speak about with Outlander, however that is that second. I am allowed to form of mourn this and rejoice it. Simply to form of take a second, give myself a pat on the again.”

“9 years on that present,” he continued. “So, think about 9 years price of tears. All of it got here out with only a few minutes with my pretty massive sis, Caitriona.”

Costar Vandervaart, who performs William Ransom, mentioned he is “nonetheless in denial” concerning the present being over.

“I am within the denial stage of grief in the mean time,” he instructed TooFab, including, “It is scary, it does not really feel fairly over but.”

For Skelton, who performs Jamie and Claire’s daughter Brianna, she mentioned she “wasn’t anticipating to really feel as emotional as I felt on the final day of taking pictures.” She went on to elucidate that whereas she “felt I had made my peace with the actual fact we’re coming to an finish, realizing we had this press tour” forward of her, she — getting susceptible — instructed TooFab she ended up “crying right into a bouquet of flowers.”

Like Sophie, the actor enjoying her onscreen husband Roger — Richard Rankin — mentioned the feelings on his final day have been “surprising.”

“My final day ended up just a little extra emotional than I assumed it might be. Or possibly not. I knew it was coming. All day felt very relaxed and regular, impartial. Till my final day, after which it began to get a kind of a sentimental,” he recalled. “I used to be there when Diarmaid wrapped, together with a pair others. It was fairly unhappy to see the partitions kind of coming down. That is the tip, that is it.”

However, “if there was a contest on who acquired probably the most emotional this season,” present govt producer Maril Davis instructed Toofab, “I might win it palms down.”

“I sobbed. I used to be emotional first read-through, I didn’t cease. I cried each time we’d wrap any person out,” she shared. “Then the final day, I assumed, so many issues have occurred over the twelve years. I’ve had children, it has been form of a sport changer, a life changer for many people. We’re a household. I do know that time period will get thrown a round fairly a bit on this trade. However it’s actually true on this present. It is a literal finish of an period. So, it was very emotional.”

Whereas the waterworks have been flowing on set, there was nonetheless some enjoyable available on the Season 8 wrap celebration. And a few of the solid clearly had much more enjoyable than others.

“It acquired fairly wild,” confessed Bell. “My favourite reminiscence of that wrap celebration was ending up in a membership in Glasgow referred to as La Cheetah, a tiny little field with home music. I feel I had my shirt off subsequent to Charles within the DJ sales space going ‘Woooo!’ So, celebrations have been made.”

“No means he is speaking about that!” exclaimed Vandervaart when TooFab instructed him Bell’s confession. “That is hilarious.”

“I am not a lot of a clubber and that was the primary time. He’s been making an attempt to persuade me to go, and I might be like, ‘No that is probably not my scene, that is not my factor,’” the actor continued. “I am going to mattress at 9:00; I am going to hit the gymnasium, have my protein shake, and go to mattress. He lastly acquired me out every week earlier than I left, and I used to be within the membership with him. It was nice!”

He mentioned the expertise left him questioning why he did not do it sooner, “so we will have a pair extra nights like that.” Vandervaart added, “It doesn’t matter what you are doing, it is a good time once you’re with individuals that you just actually love, with people who find themselves additionally enjoyable and having fun with themselves. I feel irrespective of the place they took me, I might’ve had fun.”

Skelton wasn’t fairly as adventurous because the boys, telling TooFab she thinks she left the wrap celebration round 11.

“Oh my gosh, I used to be so lame!” she mentioned of her night time. “It has been a really emotional yr for me at work, personally. I used to be 21 after I joined this job and, for me, Scotland hasn’t been my house. And so, being away from house for 10 years actually meant that these individuals are my household and it is form of been my life and I’ve kind of been an alien from my very own life. It’s been rather a lot to course of.”

“So, once we acquired to the wrap celebration, it had been fairly a troublesome schedule. I feel I used to be simply exhausted. My hats off to those that may energy by way of and celebration, however I am not that cool anymore,” she quipped.

With the present behind them, so too are the sequence’ period-piece costumes. Corsets, kilts and redcoats are simply a few of the many appears to be like the celebs have needed to put on all through the present’s eight seasons, which has jumped in time from the Forties, 50s and 60s again to the 1700s.

“I really feel tremendous lucky on this present that I managed to, such as you mentioned, to perform a little bit of each time zone,” mentioned Skelton, whose character has been in each the previous and extra modern-day eras of the present.

“I’ve managed to play such a variety, age smart, of Brianna. With the flashbacks, I most likely performed about 16 to mid-thirties,” she added. “I’ve seen her develop into a mom and he or she’s been by way of a lot. I really feel very lucky, I feel, clothes smart as a result of I managed to say goodbye to the corset, goodbye to the wooly jumpers or no matter, I do not assume I miss that materials aspect of it a lot.”

“I feel I might miss being in Briana’s [metaphoric] footwear. However I really feel like I am tremendous proud of the expansion of her as an individual and the place we go away her, so, I really feel like its simpler to say goodbye to her than if she was in her teenage self whereas she has so many interior demons to take care of,” she continued. “I am going to say I miss being a redhead. The wig and midges [a type of fly in the Scottish Highlands] don’t go good collectively. My head has been munched. So I am going to completely happy to say goodbye to the wig, [but] I am going to miss figuring out with the redhead Bri.”

For Bell — whose character joins the Mohawk tribe and adopts their model of hair and costume — he mentioned he does “have this new sense of freedom, which is kind of loopy,” after the present has wrapped. He, nonetheless, targeted extra on the individuals he’ll miss going ahead.

“I feel I’ll miss the superb crew and my fellow solid mates probably the most. Attending to see individuals on a regular basis has been a privilege. To see individuals be part of the present as trainees go away as HOD [head of department] or advance their careers all through the present,” he continued. “Growing alongside us as younger adults is the Scottish trade itself. Scotland’s trade is unrecognizable and that is all due to the impression. At the very least an enormous a part of it.”

“So, a fantastic sense of satisfaction. I’m going to overlook the crew and I’m going to overlook the solid rather a lot.”