Russell Howard
speaker
1,397 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 26 Feb
Russell Howard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, I know it's a way of life, but can you imagine? Yeah. Sending your kids?
Well, The Americans was just a... The writing was so... I have to say, even in the beginning, it was a slow burn. It was, you know, I really think the show became good about episode five in the first season. And then it started becoming this other thing, which was really this dark... kind of unravel of a marriage.
And I always thought the spy stuff was just a way to push and pull the marriage, like sleeping with other people.
Yeah, I didn't know. I was like, first of all, why do you want me like to play this like tough Russian spy? What? Don't you want like Rocky's wife, that like lady with the short blonde hair? Yeah. I'm like, me? What the fuck? I was like, oh, God. That's hysterical.
It saved my life. It really did. So that was just lucky. Total luck just getting to do that show and then meeting Matthew and all of that. That was just good writing. So fun to be a part of something that was well-received. And then I took another long break. I feel like... That's what keeps me in it is I go in and out.
I take little pockets where then I'm just home doing laundry and, you know, seeing my friends and taking the kids to school.
After the Americans.
Matthew, mm-hmm.
With Chris Dickey.
Who's equally as great.
Yeah, he's great. He is really, really great.
We had met, which he reminded me about, which I don't know if he told you guys on the show.
Yeah. We had gone to fight training or something in the first week. Well, you know, we screen tested everything, blah, blah, blah, did the fight training. And so I'd known him just like that, you know. And then we were having lunch after doing some kind of crazy fight training. And he said, we've met before. And I said, no. Yeah, I remember this. Yeah, we have.
And he said, we, you know, we were at that kickball party in Rustic Canyon. Yes. We were the last people at the barbecue or whatever. And I was trying to get you to stay. And so I was trying to open a beer without a beer. He tried to do it with his thumb. And I knew exactly. I said, oh, my God. God, of course I remember you left a drunk message on my machine. And I was moving to New York that day.
And so it had been 10 years had passed. And then, yeah, and then game was on.
Who knows, Sean? Okay, I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think. No, you don't have to answer.
Number one, you know, I don't ever want to go back to my 20s. I'm not saying... There are certain things about our bodies now as they're aging, but I like who I am so much more now. I look at my girlfriends, I think they are so beautiful now. I don't ever want to go back to 20s. I love our age now. And I think in our 30s or when I met him again,
which would have been in my mid-30s or about then, I just was a different person. You know what I mean? I was... And I wanted something different.
Well, JJ never wanted me to reveal my face. I never wanted to reveal the face. And then at a certain point, I think it was the studio or someone said, you have to show her face. And JJ was like, no, it's my whole idea. It's like, it was like that girl. There was some cartoon with a girl on a motorcycle from when he was a kid who always had a helmet on.
And then he was like, well, what if we just show her eyes? And so that was, but I think they wanted me to take the helmet off and
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