'Homeland' Season 5 Casting News, Update: Claire Danes' Carrie Mathison Getting A New Love Interest?
Fans of the hit action TV drama series "Homeland" will soon forget Rupert Friend's Peter Quinn as the next season of the scripted program is said to feature a new love interest for Claire Danes' Carrie Mathison.
A recent casting report from TV Line indicated that the former Islamabad CIA Station Chief "will have a new man on her arm" in the person of the "Inglourious Basterds" star Alexander Fehling.
Fehling, according to the site, will play the character named Jonas Happich who is "a lawyer" and is in a dating status with Carrie.
Moreover, the upcoming chapter of the Showtime drama will see a slew of newcomers who are already signed up for series regular positions. The three new cast members include Miranda Otto. The "Lord of the Rings" actress will play the character of Allison Carr, "the current Berlin Chief of Station, who's working directly under Saul [Mandy Patinkin]."
She will be joined by two more others like Sebastian Koch, who starred in "A Good Day to Die Hard," as Otto During, "a German philantrophist and Carrie's boss" and Sarah Sokolovic from "The Good Wife" as an "American journalist in Berlin who works the foundation where Carrie and Jonas are employed."
The fifth installment of the popular political drama series will pick up three years following the Season 4 finale events.
A report from Entertainment Weekly meanwhile offered a brief summary for what to expect when the show returns to the small screens.
"Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the 'war on terror,' Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working for a private security firm," the site wrote.
"Homeland" Season 5 will be comprised of 12 episodes and is slated to premiere this fall.
