Claire Danes

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

For the last seven years, Claire Danes has played one of the most intense and complex characters on television, CIA officer Carrie Mathieson on the hit series “Homeland.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” the Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress sits down with Willie Geist to chat about what it’s like to play that memorable role and how the show’s storylines have an uncanny way of predicting the future. She also discusses her childhood growing up in show business, including moving from New York City to Los Angeles at age 13 to audition for “My So-Called Life,” as well as her latest movie, “A Kid Like Jake.”

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.4	Thanks so much for clicking this week.
0:08.1	My guest is Emmy and Golden Globe winner Claire Daines.
0:12.0	She is a fourth star at the KIT Showtime series, Homeland, where she plays CIA agent Carrie
0:17.7	Matheson, a single mother, fixing the world's problems while battling bipolar disorder.
0:23.9	She's won a boatload of awards for it, just finished her seventh season.
0:26.8	Now looking ahead to the eighth season, which could be potentially, we don't know for sure,
0:33.0	her last or even the show's last.
0:35.0	So we get into that a little bit.
0:36.6	We also talk about a long career.
0:38.1	She grew up here in New York City.
0:40.1	At 13 years old, she moved with her parents out to LA to audition for my so-called life.
0:45.8	And when she was 14 a year later, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress.
0:50.2	And she was off to the races.
0:51.7	Of course, she was in Little Women, Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio.
0:56.6	She took that little break you might remember and went to Yale for two years before going
1:00.9	back to Hollywood.
1:02.4	She was working with Jody Foster when she was a teenager on a movie.
1:05.9	She was directing the movie and acting alongside Jody Foster and Jody Foster said, you gotta
1:10.0	go to college.
1:11.0	You gotta have some normal seeing your life.
1:12.3	You gotta have something to fall back on.
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