SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Homeland series finale. Hurling a Molotov cocktail in its fiery closing minutes, Homeland came to the end of its eight season run to…
It’s been a few months since you wrapped up everything on the show, now at home under stay-at-home orders right now, what is it like for you as viewers seecome to its end after what has been a very emotional and intense run on both sides of the camera?You know, I have to say, we’re having this interview before the finale airs, and I am anxious, and insecure as hell about it, honestly.
So, you know, we were exploring, investigating, and we did have the luxury of time to figure it out. That said, you know, the idea for Carrie writing a book, didn’t come until 24 hours before we shot those scenes. So, we were constantly, up to the very last minute, figuring out the story.
I mean, it is, these are our characters in a way, and so, it was really those two things. Being true to those people that we’ve created, and it satisfying those fans who have been with us from the beginning, and those were pretty high bars, you know, and we all stressed about them, as we wrote the final three, or four episodes.
So we had long discussions about what exactly her motivations were, for doing this, and then ultimately at the end, also, what is her relationship with Yevgeny? How much genuine feeling is there, and how does it feel for her to be betraying him at the same time as making a life with him? You know, these were all really tricky, delicate questions that had to be answered between writer and actor, before they could play the scenes and make them work.
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