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You know, I just liked playing somebody, a woman, who was so muscular and unapologetically

commanding and brazen because we never get to be that way and I just suddenly had like

full license. This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. For 16 years Debbie has been

talking with creative people about what they do, how they got to be who they are and

what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, Claire Danes talks about

her long career and what she learned about spies from playing one. A lot of times spies

marry spies, right, for obvious reasons, same reason, actors marry actors.

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Thanks. There's just something about Claire Danes that makes her hard not to watch and

we've been watching for a long time. As a teenager in the 1990s, she played Angela Chase

in the much-loved but short-lived television show My So-called Life. After many film and

theater roles, she starred in the much-loved long-renum series Homeland, which won her

a few Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress. Homeland just wrapped up after its eighth

and final season and you can't help but wonder what this actor will do next to compel us

to watch her again. Claire Danes, welcome to Design Matters. Thank you so much. I'm thrilled

to be here. Thank you. Claire, I understand for a time you owned a hula hoop made by the

artist, Jommie Shell Basquiat. How did you come to have that? I've so been looking forward

to this question. Yeah, that is true. It was hot pink with white stripe cell around it.

My parents owned, actually still own, with another couple aloft on Crosby Street and Basquiat

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