With only two episodes left of “Homeland’s” second season, fans are hungry for hints as to what will go down on the season finale.

Morena Baccarin — who plays Jessica Brody on the Showtime series — stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Friday, where she revealed the finale (titled “The Choice”) will be gut-wrenching.

“It’s a really heartbreaking finale,” she told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover. “It’s like a nobody-wins kind of situation.”

As fans saw on last week’s episode, Morena’s character is still finding herself torn between two men – her husband, Sgt. Nicholas Brody (the former POW-turned Congressman and potential Vice Presidential candidate) and Brody’s Marine brother Mike Faber, who she became romantically involved with during her husband’s absence.

“I really identified with the plight of this woman – it’s such an impossible situation that she’s in and it’s so beautifully written,” Morena said of Jessica’s attempt to balance love and family. “There’s never an easy day at work on ‘Homeland,’ let me tell you!”

With the Brody family at a CIA safe house (with Mike!), and the Congressman continually keeping things from his wife and children, it’s caused turmoil for the whole family.

“The kids grew up with Mike in the house, so it’s really heartbreaking that she has to set that aside,” Morena said of Jessica’s continual struggles with trying to be a dutiful wife, while still being drawn to Mike. “And she’s really trying to put the family back together and Brody’s just really not available, and lying – a lot!”

In an additional interview with Billy after her appearance on Access Hollywood Live, Morena also dished on disrobing for the hit show.

“I’m not 100 percent comfortable with [on-screen nudity] — I don’t know anybody who would be,” she said, when asked about filming steamy scenes (like the one where Jessica surprises Mike, who is sleeping in the same safe house as the Brody family). “If I didn’t feel that it was appropriate for the character and the show, I would not do it.

“I feel it’s handled very tastefully,” she added. “And of course I’m made very comfortable on set, everybody clears the set. It’s just the few guys that have to be in there.”

Though the 33-year-old actress is svelte and stunning, she said filming nude scenes is “still uncomfortable” and “nerve-wracking.”

SOURCE: Access Hollywood

The actress talks about her emotionally complicated role – and the FIREFLY reunion video message

The first season of Showtime’sHOMELAND received six Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Actress for Claire Danes and Outstanding Actor for Damien Lewis. Now in its second season, Sundays at 10 PM, HOMELAND, adapted and produced for American television by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, keeps up its breakneck pace. Danes’ CIA agent Carrie Mathison is more worried than ever about a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, due in part to her complicated relationship with Lewis’ Congressman Nicholas Brody. Brody was a U.S. Marine who was captured and spent eight years in the hands of a terrorist; when Brody was rescued, he was – as Carrie suspected – secretly in league with his former captors.

Brody now has switched sides a few times, and that’s not limited to his CIA/terrorist affiliations. He’s also married to Jessica, played by Morena Baccarin, the Brazil-born, California-raised actress of FIREFLY and V fame. Jessica is aware that Brody had an affair with Carrie and that he’s been keeping secrets – at the same time, she tries to retain sympathy for all that her husband has been through. In an extraordinary sequence in HOMELAND’s Season 2 opener, Jessica is first exasperated with teenaged daughter Dana (Morgan Saylor), then angry when Brody sides with their daughter, then both stunned and incandescent with rage when Brody says that he has in fact converted to Islam, something he confided to Dana but not to his wife.

Baccarin took some time to discuss all of the above and more with us.

Read the rest of this entry »

HOMELAND star MORENA BACCARIN has the failure of V to thank for her new role in the cult show – she had to initially sit out the pilot episode because she was signed to the revamped sci-fi series.

The sexy star has become one the TV world’s hottest properties after playing the frustrated wife of Damian Lewis’ character Nicholas Brody in the gritty series but she reveals the role wasn’t hers to begin with.

She explains, “I fell in love with the script the minute I read it but I wasn’t originally in the pilot. They were recasting that part.

“V got cancelled and the next week we went hard for that show because we felt so passionate about it.”

And she admits there were “conversations” about the amount of nudity on the show when she signed on.

Baccarin tells U.S. news show Access Hollywood, “There were conversations about what I was comfortable with and not comfortable with. Clearly, I don’t want to do much more nudity on that show… but it’s tastefully done; the character is incredibly vulnerable a lot and it furthers the story to literally show flesh.”