'Outlander' Season 3 Air Date, News & Update: Caitriona Balfe Hopes For More Intimate Scenes With Sam Heughan?

Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe have been a subject of dating rumors for quite awhile now. Fans will have more reasons to ship Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe as the actress revealed that there will be more steamy scenes in the Starz' show's third installment. Did she request for more racy scenes?

"I definitely heard that they (fans) missed a lot of the intimacy between Jamie and Claire, which I think we were sort of expecting," Caitriona Balfe told Vanity Fair. "I think even Sam and I sort of missed-especially in the beginning because it was so heavy on the politics-I think we were all missing those more intimate moments."

Although Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe, who played James "Jamie" Mackenzie Fraser and Claire Beauchamp Randall/Fraser respectively on the Starz show, remained tight-lip about their relationship status, their on-screen and off-screen chemistry are definitely undeniable. Many believed that their connection has definitely expanded from co-stars to real-life. The "Outlander" season 3 actress even admitted that she missed being on set with the 36-year-old Scottish actor while they were doing other scenes.

Speculations about Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe taking their on-screen romance to real-life have been making its rounds on the Internet. Although the "Outlander" Season 3 stars have always noted that they are just friends, their sweet glances at each other and their body language made fans believe that they are definitely more than that.

Everytime Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe attended events for the hit historical television drama series, the duo have appeared more and more like a couple but they have flatly denied the dating rumors, as per E! Online. For the meantime, fans can still enjoy their chemistry in "Outlander" Season 3 as it premieres in September. The exact date of the release has yet to be officially announced.