![]() ![]() I think they’re two damaged souls who have had similar experiences, both suffer from mental conditions, bipolar depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, and I think there’s a recklessness in both of them as well. It’s quick – it’s still a new love – but what I think is so compelling and why they’re so drawn to each other is because there’s a connection. But that ambiguity started to diminish towards the second half of season 2 and it just became clear that they do love each other. I think when “Homeland” is at its best, with Carrie and Brody, is when they don’t even know whether they’re there to work one another over, to play each other, which ends up a romantic scene because they can’t help it, or vice versa. We were both working each other and were, I think, surprised that they became attracted to one another and both realized that was the stupidest thing you could possibly do, for him because she represented a danger to him, and for her because it was totally unethical. As one half of that pairing, what do you think?ĭamian Lewis: Well, I think the delicious thing about season 1 is they were cat and mouse. There’s been a lot of talk about how real Brody and Carrie’s love affair is, how genuine either of their feelings are for each other, whether now or earlier in the series. Apart from making small children cry, it’s been fine. ![]() And it turned out my head wasn’t such a silly shape after all. It’s a question of when that happens.ĭid you have any concerns about having to shave your head for Brody’s new fugitive look?ĭamian Lewis: Only that I was worried that I would look like an hour-old mouse if I shaved it, and just look pale and pink and generally unattractive. ![]() He has been a pawn ever since, from the moment he was brutalized and tortured by Nazir, to the moment he was turned by the CIA in season 2, now he’s on the run, and now he seems to be a pawn in someone else’s world, which is this gangland world in South America, and seems to be beholden to the needle when we leave him. ![]() The moment he decided to go to war, he was a victim of his country’s decision to go to war, to put a broader political slant on it. I got to the end of that episode and wondered, given how terrible this is for Brody, how in the world does he get out of this?ĭamian Lewis: I think Brody, in my view, has always been a victim. And when everyone gets to Brody, I think they’ll be suitably shocked and appalled by the mess he’s got himself into – which increasingly is Brody’s theme: Here’s another fine mess I got myself into. I think they’re vindicated in terms of spending a couple of hours before they got to Brody. I know some poeople have said, “Where the hell is Brody?” And they want to see what Brody is up to. So I think just stopping to reflect on the damage done, and examine the consequences of it and spend time with the people who are responsible for it was a good decision. I think “Homeland” tries to be a more grown-up, sophisticated show than that. The alternative was a more high-octane worldwide manhunt, just cracking into that in the first moments of episode 1. But I think Brody going away, I think you’ve seen in the first two episodes what their answer is to that. I think we were all so caught up in trying to resolve season 2 in the best possible way, whilst we were getting some flack, so we were just trying to tie that up. So we had very few conversations like that, actually. On Friday, I spoke briefly with the show’s Emmy-winning leading man about where exactly he and Brody find themselves at this stage, and how much life he thinks the character has left in him.Īs you were coming to the end of season 2 and Brody was about to become the world’s most wanted fugitive, what sorts of conversations did you have with the producers about what your role on the show would be going forward?ĭamian Lewis: These guys never know that far in advance what’s going on. Damian Lewis made his first appearance of “Homeland” season 3 in tonight’s episode, “Tower of David,” which I reviewed here. ![]()
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