14 DAY TRIAL // “Homeland” star Mandy Patinkin couldn’t wait for shooting on season 3 of the hit series to end so he could shave off the beard he’s been growing for two years. He showed off his freshly shaved face on Live! With Kelly and Michael, as the video above will confirm.
The season 3 finale of “Homeland” doesn’t air until December 15, just so you know. Mandy is obviously doing press for it and it seems like he got just the thing to get more people tuning in.
“I shaved it the minute I finished the last shot! I felt like I was taking off a Mickey Mouse mask,” Pantinkin told the TV hosts, explaining how he hadn’t shaved in 2 years because he had to stay in character.
However, when he did get to take the beard off, he felt “about 20 years younger,” he laughed.
“The thing I loved most about it is once the show got more and more successful, wherever I go people would go, ‘Saul, Saul!’ I'd be in an airport in a foreign country and people would say, ‘Sa-ul, Sa-ul!’ And I took it off and, like, nobody knew me. This is what real life is like!” Patinkin gushed.
He does look like a different man or at least like a younger version of his onscreen character, doesn’t he?