15 years after Claire Danes let My So-Called Life producers know she wanted to focus on movies (scuttling their hopes for a second season), the actress is headed back to TV land. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Danes will star in the upcoming Showtime series Homeland—oh, you knew she was headed for pay cable—playing a CIA agent “battling demons” and dealing with POWs from Iraq who may know more than they’re saying. The show will be run by two vets from 24, so she may spend more time torturing suspects than she did on the old show (where sniffling was Angela Chase’s preferred mode of getting results).
With her performance in the HBO movie Temple Grandin winning an Emmy last year—and recent theatrical releases like Me And Orson Welles, Stardust, The Flock and Evening flopping hard—it’s not that surprising that Danes has changed her mind about the idiot box. It certainly beats shilling for paint!
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