New Yorker Claire Danes is back home filming the sixth season of “Homeland” — and, in an exclusive look at some of the location shooting, she talks about what that feels like.
Danes praises the show’s writers for “anticipating” what is going to be “culturally and politically relevant” while reflecting that the city “is a crucial place in terms of our relationship to terrorism.”
This season, Danes’ character, Carrie Mathison, is living in a brownstone on beautiful Clifton Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Location manager Ryan Smith said the show is “trying to balance iconic and local New York” by going into the outer boroughs.
The behind-the-scenes video shows an excerpt of one upcoming episode in which a SWAT team invades Carrie’s duplex apartment, with members of the Emergency Services Unit scurrying across rooftops. She is also seen getting out of a taxi on Broadway in Williamsburg. The first two episodes of the series also go inside the infamous Marcy Avenue housing projects.
“The show does embrace the New York that is now. The challenge is making it not look like a postcard,” Smith says.
“We have things that are very real to New Yorkers,” he adds. “It’s the city in its current climate.”