A major plot change and several new characters will enter Carrie Mathison's (Claire Danes) life when "Homeland" returns for season 5.
While the show is gearing up to start filming for its fifth season, E! News reported that the producers of the show are currently looking for a new actress who will portray Carrie's daughter. Back in the fourth season, Carrie and Damian Lewis' (Nicholas Brody) daughter Frannie was still an infant. But when the series returns next season, the baby will be three years old. This means that Carrie cannot just ignore the presence of her child just like what she did last season. Does this mean that Carrie will try to be a better mother to Frannie this time around?
Aside from the toddler version of Frannie, the show is also looking for a new love interest for Carrie. The character will reportedly be an extremely smart lawyer set to be one of Carrie's challenges next season. This could pose as a threat for the impending romance between Carrie and Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend), after the two almost hit it off at the end of season 4.
Also, Carrie will meet "a new father figure" now that she has retired from the CIA, thus she will be far from her original mentor Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin).
Meanwhile, earlier reports claim that the fifth season of Showtime's critically acclaimed political serial drama will be shot entirely in Berlin, Germany. This will be the first time that an American series will do so. According to The Guardian, Carrie will now be working for a private German security firm after she resigned from the CIA, but their operations will still focus on the Middle East as well as the recent events that happened in Ukraine.
"Homeland" season 5 will apparently film most of its sequences inside the Studio Babelsberg production outfit, which is also the same company that handled the production of the award-winning film "The Grand Budapest Hotel" directed by Wes Anderson.
