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Claire Danes | Going Rough, NY Times Style Mgazine

“The mania that Danes acted in Carrie, painstakingly researched and played with full abandon, had some in the show’s audience concerned for her own sanity. Gansa later told me they received mail particularly from “people who were bipolar themselves, who were worried that Claire must have it too, to bring it to life so convincingly on camera.” He said that often when you watch an actor play a person with a mental disability, “you feel you are watching Dustin Hoffman playing Rain Man, or Sean Penn playing Sam. But to a large degree, you don’t feel it is Claire playing a role. It is Carrie Mathison.”