Homeland/Trivia

• The Danza: David Harewood plays David Estes.
• Dawson Casting: Morena Baccarin, 31 at the time of filming, has a 16-year-old daughter. She's apparently supposed to be around the same age as Brody, who is played by the 40 year-old Damian Lewis.
• Fake American: Damien Lewis, a Brit, as Sergeant Brody. David Harewood, another Brit, as Estes. Rupert Friend, yet another Brit, as Quinn.
  • Major Mike Faber played by a Canadian actor Diego Klattenhoff.
• Fake Nationality: Suraj Sharma is Indian and Shavani Seth is a Brit of Afro- and Indo-Caribbean descent, both playing Pakistanis.
  • German-Egyptian Mido Hada plays M.M, a Lebanese soldier of Hezbollah.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Angela Chase is all grown up, and quite paranoid.... or is she? Hope she doesn't get suicidal.
  • Inara is married to Charlie Crews! He looks comfortable in that uniform.
  • Looks like they found Jason Gideon and he now works for the CIA!
  • Billings has gotten a lot more competent since he moved out of The Farm.
  • Friar Tuck has become the deputy director of the CIA.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Possibly used at the end of "Clean Skin". A young couple, a Middle Eastern man and a white woman, are seen buying a house near an airport. In a previous scene, a diamond necklace that a Saudi prince gave to his mistress for the end purpose of clearing customs without drawing suspicion, was sold to a jeweler for $400,000. One of the prince's handlers retrieved the necklace from the mistress by arranging her murder. It's heavily implied that the couple was able to buy the house with funds from the necklace sale. The scene of the young couple could be a subtle Lampshading of the case of Faisal Shahzad, the man who attempted to set off a car bomb at Times Square in 2010. Shahzad bought a large house in Connecticut several years prior to the attempt.
  • • And in the next episode, we learn the man is named Raqim Faisel. A later episode plays with this trope when the CIA starts investigating Faisel's partner, who may be a terrorist herself and leading their particular mission the whole time.
  • A popular Democratic Congressman with a name that's a synonym for a part of the male anatomy gets in trouble for sending pictures of himself to female aides. (In fact, they give him two such names—"Dick Johnson" is probably the only more apropos name than the real thing: "Anthony Weiner".)
• What Could Have Been: Brody was initially supposed to die at the end of the season, but Damian Lewis' performance was so good the ending was rewritten.