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Daily Record
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Outlander star auditioned for not one but two other roles before landing iconic Blood of My Blood part
Outlander Blood of My Blood has finally arrived, telling two love stories across two different timelines. WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Outlander Blood of My Blood. A Blood of My Blood star has revealed that she originally auditioned for a key role in Outlander before landing her part in the prequel. Actress Hermione Corfield has landed the role of Julia Moriston, Claire Fraser's (played by Caitriona Balfe) mum in the newly released Outlander prequel Blood of My Blood. The MGM+ romantic drama delves into Julia's own love story with Claire's dad Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) as they fall head over heels during the First World War. Of course, it wouldn't be Outlander without the mystical element of time travel which tears the loved-up couple apart, flinging their story into 18th Century Scotland. But Corfield revealed during a Q&A at the Blood of My Blood screening that she had previously auditioned for two other roles in the Outlander universe. She shared: 'It does feel like a full circle moment I think. 'My audition was six, seven, maybe even eight years ago. I read for Brianna [Fraser]. 'I was going to screen test for it and then had it clash with something else so it's kind of wild.' Brianna, who is played by actress Sophie Skelton, is Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire Fraser's daughter which, in turn, means that Corfield now plays her grandmother. But this wasn't the only part that Corfield tried to get prior to playing Julia, adding: 'I also read for Ellen originally on this which is also crazy.' 'So Jamie [Roy] and I did a screen test which is good because we probably have more scenes together than Jeremy [Irvine] and I do so it's all worked out quite well really.' Brian Fraser star Jamie Roy also auditioned for another role in Outlander but it wasn't exactly for a big role. He remarked: 'It does feel very poetic, because I auditioned once for Militia Man number one, a dear place in my heart, which was literally one line. 'And then after that, I auditioned for a slightly bigger role in season seven, didn't hear back from that but then got the audition for Brian and it all worked out with considerably more lines than Militia Man number one so I'm very, very thankful.'
New York Times
09-06-2025
- Science
- New York Times
First Fossil Proof Found That Long-Necked Dinosaurs Were Vegetarians
In the movie 'Jurassic Park,' a character proclaims there is nothing to fear from a towering Brachiosaurus, because it's a 'veggie-saurus' that eats only plants. Littlefoot, the 'Longneck' dinosaur in the 'Land Before Time' series, chows down on leaves, or 'tree stars.' But while pop culture and general scientific opinion have agreed for decades that the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs were herbivores, there was no definitive proof found in the fossil record. But there were hints of a diet full of green stuff. Fossils of sauropods, which stomped across the planet for 130 million years, are plentiful; additionally, herbivores tend to outnumber those of carnivores. The animals had small, peg-like teeth, and their huge, lumbering bodies seemed ill-equipped to chase down prey. 'Plants were pretty much the only option,' said Stephen Poropat, a paleontologist and the deputy director of the Western Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Center at Curtin University in Perth. A study published Monday in the journal Current Biology provides what may be the first concrete proof to support this argument, in the form of fossilized plants discovered in the belly of a sauropod. 'It's the smoking gun, or the steaming guts, as it were — the actual direct evidence in the belly of the beast,' Dr. Poropat said. 'It's never been found before for a sauropod dinosaur.' Dr. Poropat, along with scientists and volunteers from the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum in Corfield, encountered the fossil, which is at the heart of their new paper, on a dig in the Winton Formation in Queensland, Australia, in 2017. The team was excavating a 36-foot-long juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae, nicknamed Judy after the museum's co-founder Judy Elliott, when the scientists spotted something strange: a layer of fossilized plant material near the sauropod's pelvis. 'We knew we'd found something exceptional,' Dr. Poropat said, but he was hesitant to jump to conclusions. Fossilized gut contents, called cololites, are rare, especially from plant-eating dinosaurs, whose leafy diets don't preserve as well as the bones preserved in the bellies of carnivores. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Council embarks on pothole ‘blitz' across borough
OVER 1,000 square meters of road has been repaired as part of a 'pothole blitz' across the borough. Dudley Council said contractors have been working through the nights to fix potholes on roads across Stourbridge, Dudley and Halesowen. The work, which has been in addition to usual daytime council road works, has seen nine roads be repaired over a three-week period. Workers have been in Peartree Lane in Netherton at its junction with Crackley Way this week, having already filled potholes on Duncan Edwards Way, Haden Hill Road, Norton Road and The Boulevard near Merry Hill. Dudley Council said Level Street, Hagley Road in Halesowen, Kent Street in Upper Gornal and Lye Cross have also seen much needed repairs made. Cllr Damian Corfield, Cabinet Member for Highways and Environmental Services at Dudley Council, said: 'Potholes are a problem for all local authorities, and we have a continuous programme of works to repair potholes in Dudley borough. 'Last year we launched a game changing proactive service with regards to repairs, which includes our nighttime pothole-blitz sessions to help us catch up on issues left over from the winter. 'We've received a lot of positive feedback from residents since this started, but with more than 700 miles of roads across the borough we know we need to continue to work to deliver even more improvements. The team have been working in Peartree Lane in Netherton at its junction with Crackley Way this week (Image: Dudley Council) "I would like to thank our residents, who help to keep us updated on locations through our online reporting system MyDudley. 'This logs issues and immediately allocates the work, closing the reporting for that location until the issue is resolved and ensures no duplication of reporting, allowing us to deliver work for our residents more efficiently.' Cllr Corfield said that over the past 12 months, Dudley Council has spent £8 million on repairing roads and potholes, having carried out repairs on 2,700 potholes.
