00:01What was the most challenging stunt to perform throughout Homeland's Run?
00:05Well, the first thing that comes to mind was doing stunts when I was seven and a half months pregnant with Cyrus, my first son.
00:13I also remember when I was that pregnant, there was a scene where I was kidnapped by Abba Nazir and I was handcuffed to a pipe.
00:20Our set was like an old sewage factory. It was four in the morning.
00:25It was just so rough. Yeah, I just thought, this is not where I want to be.
00:40All right, here we go.
00:43Out of every moment so far on Homeland, which has been the most heartbreaking to portray for Carrie?
00:50Brody dying wasn't a great time. Quinn convulsing in that freaking box. Not, not a beautiful moment.
01:00Having to abandon her daughter, that wasn't so fun.
01:05Yeah, top three horrendous moments for our Carrie Matheson.
01:10Over the years, what has been your favorite memory from spy cam?
01:17Well, we FaceTimed with Snowden in Russia. That was pretty cool.
01:20That was before he was on every podcast and stuff and it still felt like a coup, but yeah.
01:25My so-called life recently celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2019.
01:35Oh my God, that's so many years ago.
01:41Looking back, what scene or episode you filmed stands out the most in your memory today?
01:48There was a scene in the pilot, I remember, it was kind of a fancy shot that we shot from inside my sweater.
01:57I remember I'd go under my sweater and we did some work with that. That was kind of surprising.
02:04I was 13 so everything seemed very exciting.
02:07I remember doing a scene where I like danced down the street after I kissed Jordan Catalano and that was really fun.
02:14I don't know, many, many, many, many memories from that show.
02:18How do you hope Carrie's story continues to impact the portrayal of mental illness on screen?
02:26Well, I was just really glad that there was an opportunity for the bipolar condition to be rendered by a hero in a piece of pop culture.
02:37I mean, she's a complicated hero, but you know, a protagonist and when I was first thinking about doing the show,
02:44I was really worried that her condition would be used as a sort of gimmick and I was assured that it wouldn't be.
02:52And I think that, you know, our writers definitely fulfilled that promise.
02:58So, you know, we had to take some liberties, obviously, because she's kind of a superhero,
03:04but I didn't want to glorify it or glamorize it, but I also wanted to show the kind of insights that can come from the condition too.
03:17And that, you know, it's a very mixed experience and it's not just a curse, but it can be another way to see things that can actually be kind of constructive too.
03:32But, you know, it's not an easy time, so.
03:40What is your best tease for the upcoming final season of Homeland?
03:45Well, my friend Didier, who did my hair today, when we started working on the shoot,
03:50he asked me if there were any new terrorists.
03:53And I said, well, I think the terrorists this season are within.
03:57We've got lots of bad guys inside, even the good guys have bad guys inside.
04:00So I think it's, yeah, that might be a tease, something like that.
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