Earlier "Homeland" season 5 spoiler talked about the new love interest for lead character Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes).
According to reports, Alexander Fehling of "Inglourious Basterds" has joined the political drama as Jonas Happich who will swoon the unstable CIA agent.
Fehling's character is a German lawyer who will date the former Islamabad station chief while she is Berlin.
With the "Homeland" season 5 spoiler above, does that mean Carrie's long-time colleague Quinn (Rupert Friend) is out of her radar now?
The two bad-ass agents never really had intimate moments in the show since the first season. However, some fans thought Carrie and Quinn will be together with the fact that Carrie's boyfriend Brody (Damien Lewis) has already been killed off. The Carrie-Quinn romance didn't happen, obviously.
For Rupert Friend, the idea of giving Quinn a love interest is good. However, he did not specify whether it should be Carrie.
"I think it was very interesting to see this so-called tough guy-who we've seen be violent, and who has deep anger management issues and is very thick-skinned in many ways- open himself in any way to anybody, even the tiniest bit, and be even mildly rejected," Friend said in an interview with Deadline.
"I mean, for you or I, if somebody just didn't return a phone call, I don't think you'd send yourself off to war. To me that spoke volumes because really this is not someone who is used to or prepared to repeat any demonstration of intimacy or vulnerability if the outcome is not 100 per cent the way he wished it would be, and that betrayed this huge amount to me impartially. You know, outside of having to play him, just as a reader of the script."
Friend did not speak further of Quinn and Carrie but he did share a major "Homeland" season 5 spoiler. He confirmed the show will look like a new story for its fifth run.
"If I were to hazard a guess, they wanted to do a reboot of everything and rejig the whole concept of the show away from a kind of will they/won't they Carrie/Brody thing and back into an espionage thriller, and focus on spy craft, which they now seem to be doing pretty much each season really. Certainly this one we're filming now is very much a do-over, again."
