GOODBYE TO CARRIE GOT ME
Actress has portrayed bipolar CIA agent Mathison on hit TV spy show for 10 years and insists it will take time to get over not having the ‘complicated hero’ in her life just been really glad that there was not just a curse – it can be another moved by their level of patriotism and when we started and now I have two an opportunity for the bipolar way to see things that can be how sincere that was. kids, who we have dragged all over the condition to be rendered by a hero in constructive too.” “Of course, we know about their planet as we have filmed this thing. a piece of pop culture. laire said during the eight failures, but we don’t get to know about “We filmed in Morocco for seven
“She’s a complicated hero, but a seasons of the show her all of their myriad successes. months. protagonist. character has been through “I think that’s a reason why the show “Cyrus went to an American school
“When I was first thinking about more than her fair share has been so successful for so long. in Casablanca, George Washington doing the show, I was really worried of lows. “We get a peek into this clandestine Academy, and Rowan learned to her condition would be used as a She said: “Brody dying wasn’t a great world and we get to spend this crawl there. gimmick. time. Peter Quinn convulsing in that intimate time with these people who “We have lived in South Africa for
“I was assured that it wouldn’t be box – not a beautiful moment. give so much of themselves and who half a year and we have lived in Berlin and our writers definitely fulfilled “Having to abandon her daughter, take such insane risks.” for half a year.” that promise. that wasn’t so fun either.” The span of the show has covered The final series of Homeland is a
“We had to take some liberties, But she believes one of the attractions big changes in Claire’s personal life, family affair, with Claire’s husband obviously, because she is a kind of of the show was getting an insight including the birth of her two sons, joining the cast. superhero, but I didn’t want to glorify into the dangers faced by real-life CIA Cyrus, seven, and 18-month-old Rowan, However, the couple do not appear it or glamorise it. agents and the work they do. with actor husband Hugh Dancy. in any scenes together.
“I also wanted to show the insights She said: “I have a profound amount She has loved taking her family with She said: “He plays not a great guy. that can come from the condition. of respect for what they do. her as she has filmed all over the world. “We don’t share any scenes, which I
“It’s a very mixed experience. It’s “When I met them, I was just so Claire said: “I was barely married think is a real blessing, because I don’t know how I would have been able to cope. But it was really cool being able to visit him on his set and to share the show with him from the inside out like that.”
Claire said the final series is full of drama. And she revealed the plot goes full circle, with her character finding herself in a similar situation to series one character Nicholas Brody, played by Damian Lewis.
She said: “The concept is that Carrie has been in custody of the Russians for seven months and she was denied her meds and so she totally unravelled.
“There is a big question of whether she was turned or not. She, in fact, becomes Brody in a sense. That’s the premise … or one of them.
“In some ways, Carrie becomes totally fused with Brody, which is kinda nice.”
Season eight of Homeland starts on Channel 4 on Sunday, February 16.