Claire Danes will be at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on June 7 to discuss her Showtime hit, HOMELAND
Who: Claire Danes, Lesli Linka Glatter, James Wolcott
What: An Evening with the Women of Homeland
Where: Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th St. between Eighth Ave. & Broadway, 212-875-5050
When: Tuesday, June 7, $40, 7:00
Why: The world first fell in love with New York City native Claire Danes in 1994-95, when she spent two years playing Angela Chase on My So-Called Life, the popular drama about adolescence that also helped show that MTV was about more than just videos. So we’ve watched Danes grow up in public since she was fifteen, starring in such films as Romeo + Juliet, The Hours, and Stage Beauty as well as appearing on Broadway in Pygmalion and winning an Emmy for the 2010 HBO movie Temple Grandin, about a real-life inspirational autistic woman. But she has become best known for playing CIA operative Carrie Mathison (and serving as co-executive producer) on the Showtime hit Homeland for five seasons, a talented but troubled woman who suffers from bipolar disorder and a penchant for making questionable decisions but who will do just about anything to solve a problem. However, each time she does something major that is wholly unbelievable, making viewers consider to stop watching the series, she rights herself and we forgive her, compelled to see what she does next and how it affects her mentor, Saul (Mandy Patinkin). On June 7, Danes, who has won two Emmys as Chase, will be at the Film Society of Lincoln Center for a special discussion with Homeland director and executive producer Lesli Linka Glatter, the longtime television fixture who has helmed multiple episodes of such series as Twin Peaks, The West Wing, Freaks and Geeks, Gilmore Girls, ER, House M.D., Mad Men, and The Newsroom, garnering three Emmy nominations. The former dancer and choreographer was also nominated for an Oscar for her 1984 short film Tales of Meeting and Parting with Sharon Oreck. The talk will be moderated by Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott, who wrote the following about Homeland’s fifth season, an episode of which will be screened as part of the event at the Walter Reade Theater: “If there were a special Emmy for prescience and conspicuous valor in truth-telling (admittedly, quite a mouthful for any TelePrompter reader), it would have to be presented to the brooding minds behind Showtime’s Homeland, whose fifth season has anticipated the horrific headlines of the last few weeks with the uncanny foreboding of a crystal ball where the future is a black swirling cloud.” The sixth season of Homeland is scheduled to premiere in January 2017.