Claire Danes, who plays CIA agent Carrie Mathison in the TV series 'Homeland', on set at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, where a funeral scene was shot.
The back of the cathedral was transformed into a graveyard and extras, dressed in funereal black, milled around a parked hearse in the adjacent Company's Garden.
The 'Homeland' team is filming the fourth season of the Emmy award-winning show around the city for several weeks.
Someone is going to die in the new season of Homeland, currently being shot in Cape Town.
Yesterday, star of the show Claire Danes, who plays CIA agent Carrie Mathison was on set at St George’s Cathedral where she was shooting a funeral scene.
And while details of yesterday’s scene are sketchy, the back of the cathedral was transformed into a graveyard complete with gravestones and flowers.
Extras, dressed in funereal black, milled around a parked hearse in the adjacent Company’s Gardens.
Danes, also dressed in black stood outside the cathedral, with someone regularly fixing and arranging her hair.
Curious passersby in the Company’s Gardens stopped to peer over the fence to catch a glimpse of the action, while others grumbled when they were unable to pass for a few minutes when filming was in progress.
The team was on set from about 6am yesterday to shoot the scene and while filming finished yesterday afternoon, the entire set had to be removed from the cathedral, with many working late into the night to do so.
The fourth season of the Emmy award winning show has been filming around the city for several weeks.
The recently released trailer for the new series, which begins airing in the US on October 5, shows Danes’ character Mathison, who was heavily pregnant in the previous season, back in the field in Pakistan. The trailer features violent action, including stone-throwing crowds and a bomb blast, and a brief glimpse of a photo of Mathison and her baby.
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