Homeland Season 4 Spoilers: Nazanin Boniadi Talks Shocking Death in New Episode

The latest episode of Season 4 of Showtime's Homeland featured a shocking death at the hands of Haqqani during the attack on the U.S. embassy, and actress Nazanin Boniadi spoke about the twist in a recent interview.

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Boniadi's character, Fara Sherazi, met her end when Haqqani literally stabbed her in the back after he used her for leverage to get a list of assets from CIA Director Lockhart. The actress spoke to EW.com and revealed how and when she learned the news.

"I found out three weeks before we shot that episode. I got a call from [showrunner] Alex Gansa and we had just had our season premiere screening in Cape Town for the cast and crew and he told me he had difficult news for me but that the writers had decided to end Fara's journey, but in a very poetic way, I think. He explained to me the reasoning behind it and it all made sense. As actors it's always hard for us to hear that news, but in every case actors serve the story and when it makes sense to the story it is what it is and you go on."

And what was her reaction when she learned her character's fate?

"It caught me off guard. I love Fara so much. I went through two weeks of mourning. It was very foreign experience to me; I've never experienced that as an actor. I was a fan of a character, I had grown to love her, it was hard to let her go. To watch the episode tonight was very difficult."

To read the rest of the interview with Boniadi, head over to EW.com.