Richard Rankin talks about how they truly time traveled in Scotland

Outlander may be a love story across time but time travel did really take place in Scotland as Richard Rankin explains in an interview.

You don’t need some standing stones or a blue police box to travel in time. All you have to do is visit the set of Outlander themselves. Because they really do make you travel in time with how the production team creates their sets.

Richard Rankin, who we know best as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, recently spoke to SYFY about how the production team managed to do this as they created the fourth season of the show. But it was much more than just time travel.

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Rankin explained how, although filming in Scotland, it felt like they had moved halfway across the world. And that how, even though the new season is set in North Carolina, they brought North Carolina to them and filmed everything in Scotland.

And it is all because of how diverse a landscape Scotland is. That you could go from being among the deep forest and next by the wide-open river. And each of these landscapes the production team turned back the clock.

Check out the interview Richard Rankin conducted with SYFY about the filming of Outlander Season 4 and what it was like for him experience what the production team had done on set.

What did you think of the interview Richard Rankin conducted with SYFY? Did you know they stayed in Scotland when filming the latest season? Or did you think they had moved to North Carolina? Drop a comment just below sharing your thoughts.

Outlander Season 4 resumes on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 8:00 pm EST on STARZ