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‘The Diplomat’: How Kate & Hal’s Seismic Shift Could Define Season 4

Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) realized she can’t live without Hal (Rufus Sewell) in The Diplomat Season 3 finale. This came after their most serious separation ever, one that lasted months and saw Kate connect with a new lover, Callum (Aidan Turner). But there’s always something going on with Hal.

The now-Vice President of the United States hatched a scheme to acquire a Russian nuclear weapon in secret with President Grace Penn (Allison Janney), a plan that knocked the air out of Kate’s lungs when she figured out what they did. Hal knows that she knows, and he told Grace. The ink wasn’t dry on the Wyler’s reunion when Kate was hit with a reminder of why she struggles to trust her husband. Can their relationship survive this potentially fatal blow?

The Diplomat Season 4 will soon start filming. Series creator Debra Cahn told TV Insider that, like the ones before it, Season 4 will pick up right where the finale left off and seemingly show the immediate aftermath of Kate’s discovery. This show is all about showing how the sausage gets made between the governing bodies of the United States and the United Kingdom, so the dramatic intrigue of uncovering every detail of these ongoing diplomatic and personal struggles is too juicy to skip over with a time jump. Sewell told TV Insider that Hal had no idea Kate was going to ask him to take her back. If he had, he might have handled the Poseidon plot differently.

“Otherwise, if they were estranged, it would be a different thing,” Sewell explained. “But that is something that’s happened that makes it seem more of a betrayal because that’s moments before that has happened.”

Kate and Hal are no doubt going to be reevaluating their marriage (again) in Season 4. But one massive change that can’t be ignored this time around is the fact that Hal is the vice president. With that job comes new, higher-stakes responsibilities. It’s very possible that his new position is going to force another evolution on the Wyler duo. The context of the requirements of his job can’t be extricated from this particular issue.

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Keri Russell Reveals Partner Matthew Rhys ‘Always’ Compares Her Go-To Outfit to This Surprising Action Movie

Keri Russell’s go-to outfit bears a striking resemblance to a certain fictional astronaut — at least, her partner, Matthew Rhys, seems to think so.

While her character on The Diplomat, Kate Wyler, is known for rocking a power suit or a classy dress, Russell, 49, exclusively tells PEOPLE that she tends to gravitate toward something a little more comfortable in her daily life.

“Typically, I don’t prefer a sequined dress. Some people do feel powerful in those; I do not,” she admits. “I would say I tend to want to be more comfortable and feel cool versus beautiful or sexy.”

As for what the Felicity actress reaches for instead? “Probably a jacket of some sort,” Russell explains. “Matthew, my guy, always says — I’ll come down wearing something, like, I was obsessed with wearing the same leather jacket over and over for so many years, with these chinos. And he’s like, ‘Oh, Sam Shepard from The Right Stuff again?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ ”

Indeed, Russell makes it clear that she would rather embody Shepard’s character from the 1983 sci-fi film over dealing with the struggles that come with wearing a restrictive dress.

“There’s a million times you’re at an event or you have to stay late at an awards show or something, and you’ve traveled on your own and you can’t undo the thing on your back,” she emphasizes. “Debora Cahn, who writes our show, we were in D.C. at, I think it was the Correspondents’ Dinner, and it was late. I was so tired. I was just about to turn the lights out and there’s a knock on my door and I was like, ‘Who’s knocking at my f——? Creepy.’ ”

But when she opened the door, she found Cahn standing there, unable to free herself from the confines of her dress. “ ‘Will you zip me?’ ” Russell recalls her asking. “We’ve all been there.”

Aside from sharing that Rhys, 50, will occasionally comment on her predictable fashion choices, Russell also reveals that her longtime partner — with whom she shares 9-year-old son Sam — “would love to” join The Diplomat if given the opportunity.

“But he’s pretty busy doing a million other things,” she adds. “He’s got, like, five other jobs or something. He has two new things coming out, so we’ll see.”

Source: https://people.com

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