The scenes may feel familiar, but Vogue has given “Homeland’s” Claire Danes and Damian Lewis a wardrobe upgrade for the magazine’s August issue.
Danes poses as cover girl in a Burberry trench and then reenacts scenes with Lewis from the hit Showtime show, this time donning Calvin Klein Collection, Donna Karan and Narciso Rodriguez, the actress’ favorite designer.
With two seasons of “Homeland” under her belt, Danes tells Vogue that her politics haven’t changed.
“I think growing up in New York in a very liberal environment, I confused jingoism with patriotism, and that mistake has been corrected as I’ve reconsidered what the potential cost of serving our country can be,” she stated. “But I don’t think I’ve become more of a political beast.”
She does take her role as CIA operative Carrie Mathison seriously, realizing how she portrays the spy has influence.
“When I spent the day at Langley, they were very forthright and said…’you know, we’re always recruiting, and it’s not all that often that we’re rendered in pop culture. We’d like to have some influence on that,’” Danes recalled. “They were just so direct. It was admirable, actually, kind of ironically transparent.”
And, as a Washington favorite, Danes has gotten to chat it up with two presidents in recent months. At this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner she met President Obama. At the Emmys, it was Bill Clinton.
“Magnetic,” she said of Clinton. “A mammoth brain.”
But was Danes-as-Mathison always in the cards? Danes said she was considering two parts over the same weekend. One was “Homeland” and the other would have also put her in Washington–playing the secretary to Leonardo DiCaprio’s “J. Edgar.” (A part later given to “Gossip Girl’s” Ed Westwick.)
“I was like, ‘Do I want to play the secretary to the boss man or do I want to be the boss man?’” she mused. “I want to be the boss man.”
“Homeland” returns for a third season Sept. 29.
