Damian Lewis: 'Homeland writers often don't know where story is going'
Published Jun 14 2012, 13:11 BST | By Morgan Jeffery
Damian Lewis has revealed that the writers of Homeland devise the show as they go along.The actor - who plays Nicholas Brody on the hit drama - told The Hollywood Reporter that the writing team often don't know where the story is going.
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"They're phenomenally talented and collaborative, as long as they know what the story is going to do," he explained. "Often they don't."
He recalled: "There was one incident toward the end of the first season, they didn't happen on it. I think genuinely they didn't happen on it in the writers' room until about episode five or six, and then they came to me and said, 'We think this happens'.
"I was like, 'What? What do you mean that happens? I'm that guy? I'm not that guy?' Then you realise you're a guy that's being written. So you roll with it."
Homeland will return to Showtime in the US on September 30. Channel 4 has picked up the rights to air season two in the UK, with a late 2012 broadcast planned.
Series exec Howard Gordon recently hinted that the show's second run will introduce "new antagonists".
"Season two is going to start about five or six months after season one ended," he revealed. "Carrie (Claire Danes) will not be in the intelligence service, and the world will be at a boiling point."
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Watch Damian Lewis discuss Homeland season two with Digital Spy below:
as Long as Brody does not find a hatch he spends the whole season obsessing about opening, things should be ok
August 9th 2012 at 7:30pm
Whatever they did it worked.
June 15th 2012 at 4:32am
Ohhh no, this will not end well. This is exactly how 24 went very bad in some places.
June 14th 2012 at 11:51pm
Not to be pessimistic but I can't help but think that series 2 is going to be a let down. Series 1 had the advantage of being a sleeper hit that was launched with little fanfare and no expectations but gradually became a darling of the critics and THE show to watch. Now everybody is aware of the show and expectations have become huge. I hope I'm wrong and series 2 proves to be even better than the first. We'll see...
June 14th 2012 at 11:02pm
We know they make it up as they go along, You can see a series going in a certain direction then if the viewing figures add up they change tack so they can make series 2,3,4 until no one knows whats going on anymore.
June 14th 2012 at 4:18pm(+1 like)