Not on their Homeland! Claire Danes and Rupert Friend film scenes for TV drama’s fourth series in South Africa
The fourth season of Homeland may be largely set in the Middle East, but it seems South Africa is playing its part to bring the story to life.
Stars Claire Danes and Rupert Friend were spotted filming scenes for the hit show in an airport lounge mocked up to look like a Pakistani one.
The location seems to fit with the confirmed storyline of the upcoming series which sees Carrie Mathison 'assigned to one of the most volatile and dangerous CIA stations in the Middle East where she is back on the front lines in the war on terror.'
Back in action: Claire Danes gets her hair and make-up touched up on the South African set of Homeland
New mission: Claire filmed scenes with Rupert Friend at a mocked up airport made to look like a Pakistani one
Showtime's president David Nevins said at a TCA panel in January: 'Homeland is a show that is deeply about a field operative (Carrie), and we haven’t seen her much in the field.
‘In season four you will likely see her on the ground in a foreign capital doing her job.'
It seems Rupert’s character will also be playing a recurring role in the show having joined the cast in season two as Peter Quinn, an elite CIA black-ops agent.
Still grieving? At the end of the last series Carrie lost her love Nicholas Brody
Fresh faces: Raza Jaffrey, Suraj Sharma and Michael O¿Keefe will join the cast
No doubt with Nicholas Brody’s death, Carrie may have a new unsuitable love interest on the horizon.
New members to the cast include Raza Jaffrey (Smash) and Michael O’Keefe (King & Maxwell, Roseanne), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jaffrey is believed to be playing Aasar Khan, a decorated lieutenant-colonel in the Pakistan intelligence service while O’Keefe is to play deputy station chief John Redmond, stationed in the CIA’s Pakistan outpost and who will get into arguments a lot with Carrie.
Carrie's happy! It's nice to see the CIA operative with a smile on her face
In the field: In season four Carrie will be on the ground in a foreign capital doing her job
Also joining the Homeland cast is Suraj Sharma, star of Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi.
The 21-year-old, who was born and raised in New Delhi, India, has recently finished filming Million Dollar Arm, with Jon Hamm.
In Homeland, Suraj will get a recurring role as a Pakistani medical student who meets Claire's Carrie Mathison.
Corey Stoll as the CIA chief of station in Pakistan and Laila Robins as the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, will also be making themselves at Homeland.
Love interest? With no Brody around maybe Carrie will find affection elsewhere
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Ann Paterson, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1 hour ago
I didn't like last seasons it lost something along the way!!.............The first two were excellent so I was disappointed !!