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'I like dysfunction': Claire Danes reveals that she favors playing troubled characters on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Published: 02:44 EST, 2 October 2015 | Updated: 15:00 EST, 2 October 2015

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Claire Danes never seems to play a 'normal' character and that's just the way she likes it.

Speaking on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night the Homeland actress explained why you'll never see her as the saccharine rom com girl.

'I like dysfunction and disorder a lot, as it turns out,' she admitted after Colbert asked her if she ever wanted to play something 'super light and fluffy'.

Troubled characters: Claire Danes appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Sunday ahead of the upcoming season premiere of Homeland

'I love everything you do, but a lot of troubled people,' noted the 51-year-old chat show host.

'My So Called Life, troubled, [Romeo and] Juliette…doesn't end well,' he laughed.

'What about a meet-cute story where you have like a service pig?' he suggested.

Critically acclaimed: The actress has received wide praise for her work in Homeland

'I did one kind of romantic comedy where I played like a clinically depressed person,' she recalled of her role in the 2005 flick Shopgirl.

Danes in Homeland plays an accomplished woman struggling with bipolar disorder.

'She's the ultimate unreliable narrator,' said Danes, 36, who is married to the English actor Hugh Dancy, 40.

Stepping up: Claire joined Stephen on the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City

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Homeland returns on October 4th with Dane's character Carrie Mathison living in Berlin, two years in the future.

'She's out of the CIA game, she's in the private sector…working for a philanthropist, a benevolent billionaire, she's head of security for his firm,' said the actress, whose mother Carla is an artist who makes sculptures with found objects

Colbert remarked that Carrie's new boss might be 'a Donald Trump character'.

Coming soon: Homeland returns on Sunday for its fifth season on Showtime

'Yes, exactly,' said Danes, adding that the writers make the script up 'as they go along'.

'I can't give anything away…because I never know what's going on,' she tittered.

'But she [Carrie] is dating a lawyer from the firm, they're living together, it's going great, she's very connected to her daughter,' she said.

'She's kind of happy,' she added, noting that her unstable character is also taking her bipolar medication 'every day'.

She's happy: Claire remarked that her character Carrie Mathison is 'kind of happy'

'But then something happens?' predicted Colbert.

'Yes, she gets kidnapped and…' said Danes, trailing off.

The Emmy-winning TV hit centers around Danes' character, a former CIA operations officer who suspected that an American prisoner called Nicholas Brody [Damian Lewis] had been 'turned' by Al-Qaeda during eight years in captivity in Iraq.