Hugh Dancy to Guest Star in “Homeland” Season 8

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Hugh Dancy will join his wife Claire Danes for the final season of Homeland. 

Deadline reports that the Hannibal star is set for a multi-episode arc on the eighth and final season of Homeland. According to the outlet, Dancy will star as John Zabel, a savvy Washington consultant who joins the White House as a new foreign-policy advisor to the President and a formidable opponent to Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin).

The final season of Homeland will see Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovery after months of confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured. Meanwhile, Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations, and against medical advice, he asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den — one last time.

The final season is currently shooting in Monaco and set is to premiere late in 2019.