Keri Russell
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39 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Keri Russell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it was really, it's such a fun cheat to seeing yourself as this other person.
No.
It's kind of like the American show. Yeah. It was so stupid and so fun. We'd be like –
Yes, that makes sense. Yeah, I think so.
I had no idea what I was getting into. I did not grow up wanting to be an actor at all. And I did show up with hundreds of kids and all my little dance pals. And yeah, you wait in line for, I'm not kidding, hours at some stupid Denver convention center. And you get in finally and he says, hey, what do you have prepared? Can you read this little script about a mermaid trying to recycle?
or something like that. And sure, yeah, I'll read the words. And then do a little dance, because that's what I had prepared, like one of my solos. And then he was like, okay, well, what song do you want to sing? And I was like, oh, no, I don't sing. And he said, little girl, do you see the line of kids waiting out there? Do you want to sing a song? And I said, I don't. I don't sing.
And so they called me back amazingly anyway. And they had me sing some little song. I think they had me sing Happy Birthday. They want to make sure you can carry a tune, which I probably barely could, I'm sure.
Listen, I had the best of all worlds experience. Normally, when a kid is acting, there's one child surrounded by adults and not to mention the crew, which is huge. A crew to make an hour show, I mean, it's hundreds of people. So it's this kid, you know, working really long hours and needing to be professional and are surrounded by these adults.
The Mickey Mouse Club, you know, I was one of 19 kids. The adults were invisible to me. I didn't even notice them. You know, it was just being in a small high school. I was just worried about like, you know, who I was going to make out with probably, you know, who I had a crush on. So it was a sweet kind of innocent experience.
version of acting that being said I just think putting any child in a professional setting like that is really tricky and that and that's why so many people don't make it and have you know have complicated lives after and as much as we did have fun and we totally did Little kids, you're supposed to be able to mess up. You're supposed to have a sick day or three.
I don't regret anything and I'm so grateful for my life, but I would never let my kids do it because kids are supposed to be kids if they can. And if you want to do it, you can do it later.
Oh, my God. I haven't heard that in a million years. That is hilarious. Oh, my gosh.
Bad sign. But then I remember at the end of the pilot, they're standing on a rooftop and they're kind of like, oh, well, you know, this was our first few months. And, you know, we're going to agree that to put the past behind us. And she's maybe going to go back because it was crazy for her to come to New York.
And he says, yeah, I just I just I can't wait to see what the city looks like when it snows. And it's just like, it's such like a romantic way of looking at the world and that time in your life when everything is new and in front of you.
It's so sweet. It's such a sweet little something.
So Felicity was four years and it was this big chunk of my 20s, you know, so grateful for it. Saved a lot of money because, you know, we were working really long hours on network shows. You have about two months a year that you're not on that show because you're doing about 22 to 24 episodes. And so, you know, what, like 16-hour days, 17, 18-hour days sometimes.
And I just felt like I had missed part of being a kid a little bit. So I took that money I'd saved and I rented an apartment in New York to be close to my girlfriends, Alana and Lindsay. And I acted like a kid. I didn't want to act. I wanted to show up to birthday parties that I wasn't able ever to... Because when you're shooting...
A show you're working till 1030 at night and then you wake up at five and you're on set the next day. So I missed out on like, you know, stupid things, birthday parties and going out dancing and getting drunk and walking home drunk in the snow. And I got to do all of those things those few years in New York. And.
Just wander around listening to overly emotional teenage music or reading books all day. That step back is the only way I'm still in this business because I think I had to know I wanted to do it again before it consumed me.
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