'Homeland' Season 6 Spoilers, News & Updates: Rupert Friend's Injury Hints Peter Quinn is Back in Action, No Longer in Coma – Will it Delay Show's Air Date?
Rupert Friend unintentionally dropped major spoilers about the fate of his character in the highly anticipated "Homeland" Season 6. The actor's injury while filming the hit Showtime series hinted that Peter Quinn is no longer in a coma and is back in action.
Friend's Injury
The tail end of the fifth season of "Homeland" showed Quinn fighting for his life after a poison gas attack. The season left with the fan favorite CIA operative lying unresponsive in a hospital bed.
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Deadline reports that Friend, the actor who plays the character in the award-winning American political thriller, walked on crutches while gracing Showtime's pre-Emmy party last Saturday. The 34-year-old English actor sustained ankle injury while filming the first and second episodes of the upcoming season in New York City.
Friend shared that he broke a bone in his right ankle due to weakened ligaments. He said his weakened ligaments stemmed from the two on-set accidents he experienced while shooting the fourth and fifth seasons of "Homeland."
Quinn's Fate
According to Metro, Friend's injury ended the uncertainties of Quinn's fate in the upcoming season. It implied that the CIA operative will no longer be merely lying down in a hospital bed when Showtime's critically-acclaimed espionage drama returns early next year.
The fate of Quinn is among the highlights in the upcoming season. Executive producer Alex Gansa has already confirmed to Variety last month that Quinn is alive, however, he left fans speculating about the major transformation of the character after the near-death experience. The EP teased that viewers will see a much altered Quinn when the series returns.
Production Delay
Friend's injury caused the showrunners to reshuffle the filming schedule. Friend told Deadline that instead of completing the first and second Keith Gordon-directed episodes, they jumped to the third and fourth episodes where director Lesli Linka Glatter could film around his injury.
Despite the slight production delay, the sixth season will return to Showtime as scheduled. Gansa said that show's premiere date will still be on Jan. 15, 2017.
"Homeland" Season 6 will focus on the U.S. presidential elections and the journey of the newly elected female president Elizabeth Keane, to be portrayed by Elizabeth Marvel. The new season is set mainly in New York, with some action-packed scenes shot in Morocco and Abu Dhabi.
The upcoming season will introduce several new faces, including Dominic Fumusa as FBI special agent Ray Conlin and Robert Knepper as General Jamie McClendon. Hill Harper and Patrick Sabongui also joined the cast as the president's chief of staff and a CUNY law professor.
