Claire Danes is a woman after our own hearts…and we didn’t really know it until we thought about it.

Let us count the ways.

First, she starred in My So-Called life, which was the best TV show, ever, ever.

Second, she played Juliet in Romeo & Juliet which basically put Shakespeare on the map. Ok, not really. But it put Baz Luhrmann on the map.

Then she kind of disappeared and we thought she was a 90′s-hit-wonder.

But now she Claire is kicking ass in new series Homeland and we are majorly OBSESSED.

The 32-year-old starred in a shoot for Asos magazine and we dig it. In the interview, she talked Towie (she’s a fan), Homeland and lazy sense of style…

Claire on fashion: ‘I’m a sales slut.  I’m just very seduced by a sale.  In New York buying clothes is fun, because it really is boutiquey.  I like Legacy and Opening Ceremony, and I love Prada.  I have a lot of J Brand and Citizens of Humanity jeans.  It’s funny with jeans now, because if they don’t feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don’t have patience for them anymore!  I think I’m becoming increasingly lazy.’

Claire on Homeland: ‘It was a leap of faith for all of us.  We only had the faintest sense of where the writers were going to take the story, and I think they were discovering it themselves as they went along, which is one of the reasons television can be so exciting.  But it’s always just such a relief when a story that you care about and a character that you’ve worked so terribly hard to create manages to translate.’

And finally, Claire on My So-Called life: ‘I was 13 when I did the pilot and I was inexperienced.  I knew that the show was special though – it was so fresh, even kind of revolutionary.  Devon Gummersall (Brian Krakow) and Devon Odessa (Sharon Cherski) are dear friends of mine.  If I’m in LA, I still have Thanksgiving with Bess Armstrong who played my mother.  We’re all really, very close.  Those gigs don’t happen very often.’

We just have one question Claire, what about Jordan Catalano, aka Jared Leto, aka Ff’s first ever crush?