Peeved Claire Danes recalls really graphic death scene on Homeland: Come on

Claire Danes isn’t securing these behind-the-scenes secrets.The actress, 46, revealed a shocking on-set moment that occurred while filming the Season 3 finale of “Homeland,” titled “The Star.”Danes opened up about Brody’s (Damian Lewis) tragic death during an appearance on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast on Tuesday.Brody was sentenced to death by public hanging at the hands of the Iranians in the episode.“When Brody died, that sequence — it was also really rough, just really graphic.

They really went there,” she said, appearing agitated.“Like, come on.

It was so intense.”“He dies on a crane, but then the crane, when we were filming, broke! So, we were really hung up by that,” Danes shared.“Homeland” aired for eight seasons from 2011 to 2020, with the “Romeo + Juliet” star explaining: “We’d reimagine ourselves every year.”With every new season, the show’s location changed, taking place in New York City, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Berlin.Production had Danes and her family living in different cities around the world during filming.“That was in Morocco, but, yeah, the first three seasons we were mostly in Charlotte, N.C., which was standing in for D.C., and we’d shoot a month in Israel or Morocco or something,” the Emmy winner recalled.“When we had to really redefine the show in a more macro way, we then became this traveling enterprise.

So, we were shooting in Cape Town [South Africa] for half a year, which was standing in for Palestine and Afghanistan.There was a year in Berlin, then a year in New York.” Shooting domestically “was actually very strange” and “weirdly stressful” for Danes because “people expected me to go to dinner” since she was back home.“Actually, I can’t do this and live my life.

There was something nice about being on location and being allowed to give myself entirely to it, because I didn’t have energy to spare,” the “Stardust” actress told Poehler.“That...