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DGA QUARTERLY 45 opposing views and they're both right," Glatter says. "You have to look at both sides of an issue and ask the [same] question. You might not get an answer [you like], but you'll ask a lot of questions." She was speaking from Casablanca, her home base for much of the current season, which focuses on the war in Afghanistan ( but filmed in Morocco) and, she says, will include themes such as "looking at what we have learned since 9/11" and whether the government overreacted instead of "stop[ping] and really analyz[ing] the situation." Tax credit incentives kept the first three seasons of Homeland in Charlotte, N.C., which doubled as Washington D.C. But the fact that it was simply un- believable not to have Danes' risk-seeking and ex- ceptionally talented agent in the field has turned the series into a globe-trotting, all-too-real caper that, as Glatter describes it, makes it feel to the cast and crew that "every year, it's like doing a pilot." Locations have included Berlin (where they filmed an intended terrorist attack in a subway right after the 2015 massacres in Paris), New York City (in the midst of the 2016 presidential election), and Cape Town, South Africa (which was dressed to look like Pakistan). Needless to say, efficiency is key. WORLD VIEW GLATTER SETS THE STAGE U CH OF THE credit for ensuring the show 's look and vision g oes to Lesli Linka Glatter, the show 's producing director. She usually di- rects the first two episodes of the season to prop- erly capture the feel of the series since the latest push of the reset button, as well as a middle epi- sode and the finale. Glatter says she hopes to be the "producer that each director would want to have. So, I can be there to [give them] all the information they need to know about the local crew we're with, and the cast and whatever they need to help facilitate the storytell- ing." Glatter was originally hired during the second season for one episode, "Q&A," helming a memo- rable interrogation scene between Danes' do- or-die CIA agent and Damian Lewis' suspicious POW, Nicholas Brody, that was filmed in one long take. It earned her both Emmy and DGA Award nominations—and an offer to return for the third season as a permanent fixture. "In Homeland, to me, some of the most iconic s c e n e s a r e t w o p e o p l e w h o h ave c o m p l et e l y From opposite left: Producer-director Lesli Linka Glatter bonds with Homeland star Claire Danes; Dan Attias (in cap), directing the "13 Hours in Islamabad" episode; Michael Klick, director and UPM; 1st AD and producer Sunday Stevens; Danes and director Seith Mann. M