Keri Russell admits shes still not sure she…
Keri Russell creates magic on extraordinary days.
But that doesn’t imply she’s too tethered to the job title actress. In truth, Russell, 49, just lately revealed how she views her profession in Hollywood.
“I didn’t grow up desperate to be an actress,” the star stated while at the Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actress Roundtable. “I’m still not sure I want to be. But I really love my job right now. There are a lot of things that are still embarrassing to me. I’m not a performer at ease.”
Dame Helen Mirren, Kathy Bates, Niecy Nash-Betts, Parker Posey, Keri Russell and Cristin Milioti. Beau Grealy for ‘The Hollywood Reporter’
Keri Russell for The Hollywood Reporter. Beau Grealy @beaugrealy
However, when it comes to Russell’s associate of 9 years, Matthew Rhys, he’s all in for his craft.
“[With] Matthew, for instance, I’ll say, ‘What are you doing this week?’ And he’ll go, ‘Oh, I’m just going to do this play reading. I haven’t done a German or Russian accent in a while and I just want to try it out,’” she revealed. “That’s my nightmare! I would f–king die. I don’t want to f–king do that in front of strangers! For me, there’s a real push-pull. I still have to overcome the obstacle of being nervous, but this version of TV that we’re in works for me.”
Russell rose to fame while starring in the drama collection “Felicity” from 1998 to 2002.
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Keri Russell in “The Diplomat.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
On the show, the actress performed Felicity Porter, who discovers what life is absolutely like after graduating high college, reverse Scott Speedman and Scott Foley. When the collection wrapped, Russell left Los Angeles for New York and never moved back.
“I like my regular life,” she confessed at the roundtable. “It’s always such a funny thing when you see any big, super famous movie star. We’ve all worked with those people. I think [about how] they can’t even go outside. They don’t know what it’s like to be a real person. They don’t get their own coffee. They don’t do their own laundry.”
“How do they play a real person? I don’t want to talk shit too much about acting. I am completely married to the adventure of it, and that’s what I’m in it for,” Russell added. “I love to [shoot] in some strange city — it could be Paris or some little Southern town — and learn the city, meet new people and find my little thing.”
Keri Russell in “August Rush” in 2007. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Keri Russell in “Cocaine Bear.” ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection
“Felicity” went on to win her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 1999.
Over the years, the “Waitress” alum has had a slew of iconic roles. From 2013 to 2018, Russell performed KGB spy Elizabeth Jennings reverse Rhys, 50, as her on-screen husband and fellow KGB spy, Phillip on the FX collection “The Americans.”
It was also on that drama, that her romance with the “Burnt” actor started.
Keri Russell, Edward Norton in the 2009 movie “Leaves of Grass.” First Look International/Courtesy Everett Collection
Now Russell stars on Netflix’s “The Diplomat,” with its third season set to premiere in the autumn.
Although she’s labored in a selection of genres over the years, the Hollywood vet can’t help but look back at typecasting that went on in the early days.
As she put it, “I went through a phase where it was just a nice pregnant mom. That was a Keri Russell type.”
Keri Russell attends the European premiere of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney
Which felt like virtually every different position for Russell.
“A lot of times,” she reiterated. “A lot.”
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