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Keri Russell will soon immerse yourself in work mode. First are the Emmy Awards on September 14, for which she is nominated a second time for her role as Kate Wyler in Netflix ‘”The Diplomat”. The nomination is her seventh for the show and joins a Sag, Two Golden Globe and Two Critics Choice. In the following weeks she will start advertising for the third season of the show, from October 16. You will return until November to film the fourth seasons for filming.
Russell is currently enjoying the last summer pieces after taking her eldest son to college.
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“For the good or bad, the nature of our jobs is a lot of traveling, so I think that my children are used to getting to a new place and walking and moving with airports and moving their things and knowing how to live,” says Russell, who shares two children with ex-husband Shane Deary and one with partner Matthew Rhys. “In a way, it is easier than families who may never have experienced it. So, River, my oldest child, he practiced, so I have the feeling that he was fine. The younger siblings, I think it was emotionally because they are” Oh my god. “There were some tears from the younger siblings.”
The 49-year-old is “very excited” about this phase of life and strives to attend your friends’ newcomers and to annoy her about what discussions take place on campus, what music you listen to, what views in the world are.
“I just want to bring them to dinner and deviate from their young minds,” she says.
Russell itself is perhaps not a college child, but she is exactly the kind of person in whose thoughts you want to insight. Yes, her work on “The Diplomat” has increasingly connected to modern politics – but it is only fun talking to them. She cursed, she drinks beer during photo shoots and she talks about her work in a way that the passion is naturally felt.
“This is one of my favorite jobs I’ve ever done,” Russell says of “The Diplomat” and takes a sip of a peroni. “It is such a sweet spot for me because it is a way to make a show about topics that are important to me, but it is a way to incorporate it into this confectionery of a snack that is tasty through humor and a little relationship material and some location porn.
For the few who have not observed the series, “The Diplomat” Kate Wyler, a diplomat, follows a new publication to the Middle East when they were instead assigned to St. James’ Court as an ambassador. Her marriage to Hal, a former ambassador of Rufus Sewell, crumbles at the beginning of the show, but with her new job in London, there is a pressure to save her. The show is equal political drama and delicious relationship tension.
“With the complete disassembly of USAID, our show is really a love letter to the foreign service and everything that is currently being destroyed,” says Russell. “So funny and ridiculous and silly our show is also what I love all these parts, I also love that, and the weight of it and the people we represent, and I hope that we have the feeling that we represent them, but in a kind of funny way.”
Russell describes the experience of making a show about American politics in the current landscape as “wild, really wild”.
“What we have for ourselves is this Debora [Cahn, the show’s creator] Always says: “We don’t write headlines.” So, yes, the things are true that we write about, but this is only because the authors meet with people in the government and we say one and a half years in advance: “What are you afraid of?” And then there are a lot of things she wrote about, but this is only because she guessed it correctly.
“It feels good to make a show about the government at that time,” added Russell. “I think, especially in this country, we have had it for so long, and maybe this is the moment when it is a bit like what Great Britain has done through the loss of power. It feels good to illuminate a show, what I think in our country, we don’t really know what the government knows. Maybe that’s just my taste, but I love it. [Cahn’s] Write. She can’t go wrong in my book, and the way it starts this season is so great. “
The third season gets right where the second ended with the death of President Rayburn and the following news that Vice President Grace Penn, played by Allison Janney, is now president. Hal pushed to take over the vice president, but with the death of the president suddenly all bets are eliminated.
“It is really interesting to see because all these incredibly specific things happen when such a shift occurs,” says Russell. “So you do everything and then what it does with the relationship, Kate’s relationship, your marriage and what it does with the marriage of the two countries of the United States and Great Britain and how everything influences everything … It is great. It has a really nice balance of some really personal things that have to do with marriages and relationships, and then also the world politics that feel very relevant.”
The third season was shot on site in London, but pulled the stage to New York, so that both Russell and Cahn could reconcile the shooting plan with their families.
“She had always started the show in London and then home. And what we did only moved everything that shot in a stage to New York so that our children didn’t forget who we were,” says Russell. “We are still planning to return to London, and we both love London so much, so we are still planning back and we are still planning to have porn. It is the imagination of the show.”
Cahn’s writing comes again as what Russell has drawn about the project.
“For me it is always writing. I would probably have a different career, like a more lucrative career or something if I take care of other things,” says Russell. “But everything that is important to me is writing, and I just think that this is my entry point. [Cahn] Has this really great combination of really simple, funny dialogue that is smart and funny, but I thought the story has a really nice balance to be weighted in something that feels important, but is fun while doing it. “
And then there is Kate Wyler: no nonsense, spicy, uninterested at the pomp of work – and not able to keep your clothes or hair clean.
“I love the messy. I love the openness. I love the glory and I like how wrong it is and no fear of being wrong,” says Russell. “She is really a person in a world of many men and is not afraid to express her opinions, which in my opinion can sometimes be difficult.”
“She is a fantastic actress. She has great intelligence and a great sense of humor. And the two are completely connected,” says Sewell about Russell. “And I think there is something about the material that we both reacted in the same way that she has an innate understanding. I think what really reacts in the material is how incredibly real and silly the relationship is. It has all the dynamics and ridiculousness of a real relationship. It is very refreshing.
Russell made friends with the former real ambassador in Great Britain, Jane Hartley, who wanted to see her for dinner in the evening after this interview.
“She is so smart that she is so charming that she is so curious and simple with people. She can really dissolve politics. “I was with her in London in several dinner, where we sit in a great restaurant and have a fantastic food.
In contrast to Kate, Hartley is a little more interested in fashion. “Jane dresses flawlessly,” says Russell, realizing that in the real world it is easy to offer to be an ambassador. Fashion also intertwined with the task of an actor, in a way when Russell began her career in the hit show “Felicity” at the end of the 1990s.
“It has become so prominent for actors. In the past, when they were a great actor, it did not mean that they had to dress well, and now there is a real crossover,” says Russell. “I just think that there is so much money to make and there is so much with social media – for the good or bad, because I really don’t think that everyone has to be a great dresser. Not everyone is fashionable, let’s be real.
“How did it change for me?” She asks. “You are expected to really get dressed. You are expected to really appear to everything. And it is sometimes difficult because I am not a model, I don’t work in fashion. If I get styling help, I work with someone I think it is so talented, and I love his taste so much, but it’s not like we have branded relationships, so I can call it: ‘ have?’
“I have no social media, so I personally wear a kind of simple, simple things, because all the stuff that sometimes feels like a rat race sometimes attracts and who will get something, and I would rather not take part in the competitiveness of this stuff.”
What is interested in Russell is, yes, write well and do things about your own conditions.
“I feel really fulfilled at the moment, with ‘The Diplomat’. I have to say that I really enjoy it and then have the time -out with my children or my friends or myself.” I like the free time to read and fill myself again and feel rested. I am sure if Debora is fed up with writing the show, which is probably soon, then I will look for other things, but at the moment the work is enough, and then I am interested in my own life. “
Keri Russell’s style over the years: Met Gala, Golden Globes, Premieren and more, photos
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