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"   Photo: Getty Images  Morgan Saylor\u2014the dynamic, fresh-faced ingenue who stars as the angsty daughter of a terrorist on Homeland\u2014recently walked the Emmys red carpet looking every bit the Hollywood star. The 19-year-old, dressed in an Honor gown and Christian Louboutin heels with slicked-back hair and red lips, exuded glamour\u2014she even nailed the classic over-the-shoulder pout for the cameras. When Saylor isn&amp;#039;t filming dramatic scenes on Homeland\u2014holding her own alongside industry vets like Claire Danes\u2014or walking the red carpet (she attended this year&amp;#039;s Met Gala), she can be found doing normal, un-Hollywood activities like baking pies (&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m really good at it!&amp;quot;) and climbing rocks in Brooklyn (&amp;quot;I take it seriously, and competitively!&amp;quot;) with her boyfriend. The Georgia-bred actress is still trying to get used to the idea of becoming an overnight sensation. On the hit Showtime series, now in its third season, Saylor plays Dana Brody, a role that has intensified over the years. From starting out as a pot-smoking rebel, Dana has evolved into a strong-willed young woman who even prevents a suicide bombing. Before Homeland season three premiere this Sunday, we chatted with the starlet about taking advice from Danes, being parodied on SNL, and what we can expect on the upcoming episode of her hit show. What&amp;#039;s going on with your character? It&amp;#039;s intense this season. It&amp;#039;s weird, it&amp;#039;s been a very emotional summer playing Dana. She starts off the season very unstable. She thinks she&amp;#039;s doing better but she isn&amp;#039;t. She&amp;#039;s in a different place than we&amp;#039;ve ever seen her\u2014feeling a lot of emotions because of her father. There&amp;#039;s a lot of fun stuff, including adventure and romance, which is weird. How do you get prepared for these roles? We get the script the day before the episode starts. It&amp;#039;s so intense. We film two scenes a day, so it&amp;#039;s not that bad. I&amp;#039;m really bad, I&amp;#039;ll memorize [my lines] in the hair chair. I work on it and think about it a lot before I go do it. Because I&amp;#039;ve played Dana for three years, I know how she feels. Do people stop you on the streets and talk to you as if you&amp;#039;re Dana? Yeah, all the time! They&amp;#039;re like, &amp;quot;Your dad is a terrorist, and your mom is such a b*tch!&amp;quot; They really say that, it&amp;#039;s funny. I&amp;#039;m just like, &amp;quot;Um, haha, it&amp;#039;s just a show,&amp;quot; and nod. Dana always furrows her brows in many scenes, which has become her signature. They even parodied it on &amp;#039;SNL.&amp;#039; Did you watch that? I did! It was seriously so weird to see that they were doing a parody of me. They probably even did it better than me. But it was so strange but really cool and very funny! Do you feel pressure acting alongside veterans like Claire Danes? Not really. I don&amp;#039;t think I was ever nervous. Now I know everyone so it would be weird to be nervous. I am nervous to act along new actors like this new guy [Xander, played by Taylor Kowalski] who is Dana&amp;#039;s love interest. It&amp;#039;s always kind of nerve wracking. Did you Google him? Duh! To the nines! I read everything about him. I looked up everything [Kowalski] had done. One time, we were doing a scene and I was like, &amp;quot;How was it doing that movie with that actor?&amp;quot; He&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;How did you know that?&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;I Googled it!&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m not embarrassed, I&amp;#039;m doing my research. I sound so creepy but I like seeing the interview they&amp;#039;ve done, as well. Who are you close with on the cast? Super close with Morena (Baccarin), who is my on-set mommy. We go shopping on the weekends and spend more money than we should. And she makes me buy dresses that I have to dry clean. She made me buy my first delicate item, a Band of Outsiders dress. She taught me to change the settings on the dry cleaner to &amp;quot;delicate.&amp;quot; Life-changing. What have you learned from Claire Danes? She&amp;#039;s actually helped me with some big advice. She&amp;#039;s a really smart woman. She&amp;#039;s very articulate and in a really intelligent way. During the pilot, the first thing she said to me was, &amp;quot;When I was 15 I was doing a show. I know what it&amp;#039;s like to live with your mom and go to high school.&amp;quot; She was completely empathetic but still like, &amp;quot;Isn&amp;#039;t this cool to be doing this?&amp;quot; Are you getting more into fashion now that you&amp;#039;re having to do red carpets? I&amp;#039;m getting more into fashion. I&amp;#039;m surprised that I&amp;#039;m getting into it because I was always wearing goofy stuff in high school. I really like it. It gets me so psyched. I went to fashion week in February, and it was interesting. My dress for the Met Gala was Holly Fulton. Fashion&amp;#039;s a part of it, and happy to be getting into it. Check out Saylor on Showtime&amp;#039;s Homeland on September 29 at 9 p.m. ET. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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