“Outlander” stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan closed out Friday’s “Outlander” panel at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour by commenting on their Starz show’s most-controversial scene to date: That whole spanking thing.
“We all knew a lot of people would be very interested in how we would tackle it,” Balfe said of the moment from Diana Gabaldon‘s book. “First and foremost, we have to remember that you have to look at it in the mind-frame of 1743. It’s very hard as a modern person to see this is OK under any circumstances. But in 1743, this was a very justified form of punishment that a husband would [dole] out.”