Sam Brigger
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1,127 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6 Jun
Sam Brigger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Watching the show last week, I was just thinking about how much fun it must have been for an actor because there's so much acting in it. First, you're acting as a Russian spy who's pretending to be an all-American mom. And then you have all these side missions where you're disguised as other characters. You're seducing people. You're killing people.
It just must have been really fun to go in and have all this stuff to work with.
Yeah, you wear a lot of wigs. You probably wear like 100 wigs during the show.
That'd be a good podcast.
That's like exactly how it shows.
midnight and Matthew would come in to the trailer with some crazy mustache and we would just laugh our heads off it was it was so fun so Carrie I wanted to talk to you a little bit about your childhood and how you got your start in acting when you were cast on the all-new Mickey Mouse Club and this was in the early 90s I think you were on the show for three years is that right
It was a long time ago, but yes. Yeah, it started when you were like 15. And the show's famous as the launching pad for a lot of talented young actors and musicians, including yourself, Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and Britney Spears. So there was a big casting call in Colorado. And so you decided to try out.
And at this point, it doesn't sound like you've done a lot of acting. Did you know what you were getting into? And like, was... Was one of your ambitions to be on television at that point in your life?
Well, if people haven't seen the show, it was a variety show. And you did some singing, you did some dancing, and then there's a lot of set pieces. So I wonder if you compare your upbringing to your kids' life. And if there was a casting for another Mickey Mouse Club, would you let your kids audition? You had a good time, but it was certainly a unique way to be a teenager.
Carrie Russell, recorded in 2023. Season two of her series The Diplomat is currently streaming on Netflix. We'll hear more of my interview after a break. And later, we remember writer Dorothy Allison, author of the critically acclaimed novel Bastard Out of Carolina. I'm Sam Brigger, and this is Fresh Air.
This is Fresh Air. I'm Sam Brigger. We're listening to my 2023 interview with actor Keri Russell. She stars in the political drama The Diplomat, which is currently streaming season two on Netflix. Russell plays Kate Wyler, a career diplomat tapped by the White House to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the U.K. Russell got her start on television as a teen on the all-new Mickey Mouse Club.
She became famous as the lead on the TV show Felicity and received three Emmy nominations for her role in the series The Americans as a Soviet spy in the 80s living in the U.S. pretending to be an American. So, Carrie, after your time at the new Mickey Mouse Club, you decided to move to Hollywood and try to make it as an actor.
You were on a few shows that didn't quite succeed, like there was an Aaron Spelling show. You were in a Bon Jovi video. Amazing. I didn't quite follow the narrative of that video, but it seems like you had pretty bad news in it. And then you tried out for the show Felicity, which was your really big break. And Felicity is about a girl who graduates from high school in California.
She's planning to go to Stanford. And to pursue a medical degree. But she changes her plans because this boy, Ben Covington, who she's had a crush on but never really talked to, writes like a compelling note in her yearbook. And so she decides to bail on all her plans and follow him.
to New York and he's going to the University of New York which I have to say I always thought was weird like they can name Stanford Stanford but it's you can't have NYU like that's kind of weird but that's besides the point well let's hear a scene from Felicity this is from the first episode where the very earnest and honest Felicity confronts her crush Ben Covington played by Scott Speedman in a college stairway and reveals to him why she's in New York
Okay. That's a really hard scene to listen to.
But, you know, you're really good in that, though. Like, you're taking all these awkward pauses, and it sounds really natural. But I have to say that she finds out, I think in that episode or the next episode, that he, on his college essay, he totally made up that his older brother died and that it was his dream all along to go to this school.
And I have to say, Felicity should have totally left him at that point. Yeah. That's a bad sign.
It's so important.
So when Felicity ended, you decided to take a break from acting. Can you talk about that decision?
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