Why Stephen Bonnet actor Ed Speelers is leaving 'Outlander'

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'Outlander' Season 5, Episode 10 saw Stephen Bonnet killed at the hands of Brianna, and star Ed Speelers has spoken about why he is leaving the Starz show.

On 4/27/20 at 8:54 AM EDTSeason 5 has just seen a major character death as the villain Stephen Bonnet campaign of piracy came to an end.show, titled"Mercy Shall Follow Me," he finally faced trial for his crimes and was found guilty. He was sentenced to death by drowning, but just as the water started to lap across his face Brianna shot and killed him, allowing her to kill the man who raped her.

According to Speelers, it was not his decision to leave the Starz series. Speaking to TVLine, he joked:"I was pretty p***** off...I'm not going to lie. I was on holiday with my family, with my young children. I was on a beach in Mallorca and I took a phone call saying, 'we need to get you in for certain tests and things, makeup tests.'

"I was like, 'What's this about?' 'You have a bullet wound to your head.' I said, 'What bullet wound to my head? Am I surviving this?' I then got a script, and I obviously wasn't."In a way, the character was always bound to die in the TV version of the Diana Gabaldon books. In the sixth book in the series, titled, Bonnet faces the same fate, with Brianna shooting him because she knows of his fear of drowning.

Speelers said of this,"a villain such as Stephen Bonnet, he doesn't make it in the books, and there's no way he's going to make it in the TV series. Deep down, I knew it was going to come at some point."TV Guide put that question to actor Sophie Skelton, who said:"We'll never know why she did it. I don't even know if Brianna 100 percent knows why she did it.

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