Claire Danes Goes Topless, Talks About Bipolar Homeland Role After Baby

Actress explained how difficult it was to play her role on the Showtime series

By Lily Harrison Nov 04, 2013 5:28 PMTags
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Claire Danes is one hot mama.

The Homeland star posed topless for Interview magazine and showed off her amazing post-baby body.

During her chat with the fashion mag, Danes spoke about the difficulties in taking on her bipolar character on the hit Showtime series so soon after giving birth to her son Cyrus.

"It was exhausting but also exhilarating. I had just come out of my mommy cocoon and my cushy, mushy love planet. So entering that mania at that point was not as enjoyable," she explained.

The 34-year-old star also shared how she and her husband, Hugh Dancy, help one another with their respective projects.

"My husband is also on a television show now, so we're always running lines with each other. We'll run lines with each other on the phone. I run lines with him in taxicabs."

Danes couldn't help but gush about her new family of three and how it's completely shifted her priorities.

"I guess it's closest to being infatuated with a lover or something, but it's not that. It's cellular," she told the magazine.

"So yeah, that the love for your child is physical was a big surprise. I can't not look at him if he's anywhere nearby, because there's not competition. I can't read. I can't watch a show. I can't do anything but stare at him doing nothing."

So what would the Hollywood actress like to do in between mommy time and being the star of a hit show?

"I would really like to play another character to deviate from Carrie for a second just because I'm starting to think that acting is this, and while this is one of the most fulfilling expressions of acting that I've found, it's not why I do it. It's not it," she said.

"I think I'd appreciate her even more if I could take a little vacation from her and inhabit somebody else for a while."