So the Outlander World gets its first live view of Sam Heughan in a kilt...

...and goes WILD.

Sam Heughan, the Scottish actor recently cast as Jamie Fraser in STARZ TV's Outlander, presented the award for Best Actor / Actress in a Feature Film (along with Joanna Vanderham) at the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television) Scotland Awards on November 17, 2013. All of us not in the UK watched the live feed of the show on YouTube (thank you, technology), and got about 45 seconds of Sam in a kilt, walking and talking and smiling and even speaking a little Gaelic.

But before the show started, STARZ Outlander Tweeted photos of Heughan getting fitted for the kilt he would wear to the ceremony.

Photo released by STARZ Outlander.

And then right as the show started (I was surprised at how small and intimate the venue seemed, as well as how short the ceremony was), these photos were posted on Twitter:

                                                                                                   Photo by @KellyLy125 on Twitter.

Why is he standing like that? It looks like he just conquered something, or his kilt is in a wad...or something. Whatever, it doesn't seem natural. Surely this man is used to wearing kilts, right? Anyway, it's Sam. In a kilt. And so we can better visualize him as Jamie Fraser.

Then it wasn't too much longer before Heughan is onstage presenting the award. Here are a few screen shots of that:

 

Two photos above by @TheRealPernice on Twitter.

 

 Above two photos by @LadyRaven15 on Twitter.

Above photo by @KellyLy125 on Twitter.

I can totally see the young-20s-virgin in the above photo. At first, I wasn't sure Heughan could pull that off. He looked older and not-so-innocent to me in the few imdb and promo photos that were available at the time of his casting.

I think this one is my favorite of all of the screen shots from the BAFTA awards:

Photo from @JeSuisPrestNow on Twitter.

His hair looks like it's in an awkward growing-out stage. As soon as Ron Moore and Crew announced they'd cast Heughan as Jamie Fraser, I wondered if he would begin growing it out. It looks as though he has. That pleases me.

I had embedded a link to the YouTube video of the entire ceremony, but the owner of the page changed it to private. So, here's a second-best video clip for you; it's only 40 seconds long, from a Melanie Friedman on Facebook (Thanks Melanie!). Once I find a better one, I'll post it too.

LATER EDIT: The Scotsman just posted a beautiful article on an interview with Heughan, in which Sam talks about loving the beauty of Scotland and how he had "kind of forgotten what Scotland was like and I’d turned into a bit of a Londoner." <gasp> He says that the places they have been filming (like Doune Castle, which was one of my FAVORITES on my recent trip to the country) are so gorgeous that people will think they're fake sets and CGI. He also mentions all the Outlander fans (!!) and love scenes with Caitriona. I think you should check out the article yourself. 

So now you can just avoid Twitter and Facebook because it's craaaaaaazy out there! You're welcome. :)