Homeland Claire Danes Talks Carrie Mathison

Homeland‘s Claire Danes talks about her compellingly ‘borderline’ character Carrie Mathison.

Speaking to Piers Morgan on CNN, Danes describes the obsessive CIA agent as “a tricky one — I adore her [but] she’s anything but straightforward.”

As for how much of Carrie is in her, Danes says:

“I don’t know exactly, she seems very ‘other’ to me, she seems quite alien but I’m having a great time inhabiting her and just being very naughty.”

Despite going to extreme lengths to hunt down terrorist Abu Nazir and prove that Brody has been ‘turned’ against his country, Danes supports Carrie:

“She means well, and in some ways she’s very earnest and well-intentioned. She has no patience for any of the bureaucratic nonsense, she’s not playing some superficial game. She really does seriously want to find the bad guy and protect her country, that’s her ambition and it’s not political. I admire that about her and I think people kind of tolerate her recklessness and abrasiveness because they kind of sense that too.”

Source: CNN

Homeland continues with a second season in 2012.

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Underseer December 31, 2011 at 11:50 AM: I enjoyed Homeland right up until the last episode. If they’re going to have her lose her memory, and keep oscillating with Brody, I’m going to lose some respect for the show.
Amnesia is the old, laziest plot device that a screenwriter can use, in my opinion. It’s a way to avoid plot conundrums and holes, or to draw in new viewers to a serialised story. Kind of like what season 4 of Fringe has been – so far at least.
Also, the ‘Brody as Manchurian Candidate’ story thread should have terminated with this season. I get the feeling had it been a miniseries, Brody would have blown himself up and we’d have been left with the shock of what happens when not listening to the girl who cries wolf.
It was so obviously engineered to allow for another season, rather than serving good plot structure or a satisfying ending. That’s irritating.
Once again, this is the problem with a series as opposed to a miniseries. Series just go on and on until they’re cancelled, often without time for a dignified or satisfying resolution. A miniseries comes to a definitive end.
I think it’s time it was acknowledged that the open-ended series model is a miserable failure. I can count on one hand how many shows that got to have the ending they deserved. I think it also makes writers lazy – they never have to resolve anything, so the storyline becomes ever more convoluted until it’s unintelligible spaghetti.
The open-ended series model is, in most cases, starting something that you pretty much know you’ll never finish. So Homeland? Finish the story in season 2 please. I’m not waiting until the hundredth episode to find out which side Brody chooses.
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