The first season of Outlander: Blood of My Blood has been as full of romance, intrigue, and kilts as any Outlander fan could have hoped in the 2025 TV schedule, complete with an intimacy coordinator on board for when the story gets spicy. The prequel's four leads look believably enough like Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan that it's not hard to buy them as the future parents of Claire and Jamie, but the show really nailed the casting when it came to Jamie Roy as Brian Fraser.

I spoke with the actor about the first season of the new show, and he shared the "spooky" first time that somebody in his personal life realized that he looks an awful lot like a dark-haired Sam Heughan. Fans had certainly noticed the resemblance between Jamie Roy and the actor who plays his son on Outlander, but did anybody in his daily life make the connection before he was cast for Blood of My Blood? He answered that very question, saying:

A+ to that friend of the family, because the resemblance is pretty uncanny once you make the connection! Take a look at Blood of My Blood's Brian and Murtagh compared to Outlander's Jamie and Dougal:

Put red hair on Jamie Roy in the photo on the left or black hair on Sam Heughan in the photo on the right, and I'd say that they'd at least look close enough alike to be brothers! I'll admit that there are certainly scenes in Blood of My Blood's first season that I did a double take at Brian, and the two actors even sound similar, as far as I'm concerned.

Throw in that Heughan plays Jamie and Jamie Roy is his prequel dad, and it really feels like the stars aligned for Roy to land the key role in Blood of My Blood. He went on:

There are still a few episodes left of Outlander: Blood of My Blood's first season, and fans can rest easy on at least one front: the show has already been renewed for Season 2. As for the rest of Season 1, the remaining new episodes will air on Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on Starz, and be available streaming on Fridays on the Starz app as well as the Starz add-on to a Hulu subscription.