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By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 01 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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By: Marianka Swain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Outlander<\/a>\u2018s long-awaited season 6 sees a new family settle on Fraser\u2019s Ridge in North Carolina: the Christies. And with their arrival comes serious religious disputes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As we learn in a flashback in the 80-minute first episode of the new season, the fiercely Protestant Tom Christie (Mark Lewis Jones) spent time in prison with Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), and frequently clashed with him and the other Catholic convicts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Rankin, who plays Jamie\u2019s son-in-law Roger MacKenzie, told RadioTimes.com<\/a> that faith is a major theme in season 6: \u201cWe\u2019re going to see some religious elements being brought into the show and questions [asked] of people\u2019s faith and where it lies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTom Christie brings in such a staunch devout approach to Christianity, and his methods of teaching and keeping that line among the community are certainly questioned by Roger. So immediately, you get that feeling that there\u2019s some sort of tension that\u2019s going to build between the Christies and the Frasers\/MacKenzies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Rankin was delighted to see the Christie family enter the fray this season: \u201cIt\u2019s always fun to have new characters, new relationships, potential drama and conflict unfolding. I think the Christies are a particularly interesting bunch \u2013 they bring with them a sense of uncertainty and danger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the many ways in which Outlander holds itself up so successfully, its guest characters and its guest actors, and I think this is one of the best [seasons] to be honest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rankin also spoke about his character\u2019s new path towards becoming a minister in season 6: \u201cIt\u2019s an interesting direction for Roger to take. I feel like it\u2019s one that he would often have resisted. He was raised by a minister \u2013 his adopted father [Reverend Wakefield] was obviously a minister back in Inverness \u2013 and he went on a completely different path. So it\u2019s a reluctant one that he\u2019s almost kind of fallen into, but he sees that opportunity to help people and the void that needs to be filled.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rankin then joked with co-star Sophie Skelton, who plays his wife Brianna, about the unknown fate of the minister who was meant to be coming to the Ridge, but never turned up. \u201cApparently he got lost somewhere,\u201d said Rankin.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know if he was killed or got lost,\u201d chimed in Skelton.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think he just got lost,\u201d confirmed Rankin.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He continued: \u201cSo then Roger was like, \u2018I\u2019ll be a minister.\u2019 He does have the background, he does have the experience, he kind of knows what he\u2019s doing. He is capable of it. It\u2019s just whether or not it\u2019s right for him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I suppose that\u2019s part of the journey of season 6,\u00a0 exploring whether or not it is, and where that\u2019s going to lead, and where that\u2019s going to take him and his family. It\u2019s definitely something new to play.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rankin noted how a flashback in season 5, which showed Roger teaching in Oxford in the 1960s, showed how this new profession actually plays to his character\u2019s strengths: \u201cThe whole purpose of [the flashback] was demonstrating Roger\u2019s capability as an orator and a communicator and an educator.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The flashback arrived in a dramatic episode when Roger was recovering from being hanged and subsequently lost his voice. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[His voice was stripped from him and you feel the weight of that,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it\u2019s interesting, going into season 6, he really puts that into practice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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