Keri attends ‘The Americans’ season two premiere at Paris Theater on February 24 in New York City.
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– Events The Americans” Season 2 Premiere – February 24 2014
Keri Russell surprised and impressed last year and turned her Felicity-crafted image on its head, as the tough as nails, intense Elizabeth Jennings on The Americans. The more hardline of the two undercover KGB agents at the center of the spy series, Elizabeth proved she would go as far as she had to in order to complete her mission, while we also saw her vulnerabilities and her confusion over the bizarre situation she and her husband Philip are in.
IGN TV: When we left off, Elizabeth and Philip had reconciled. As the season begins, are they doing well, or are this still some bumps there because they had so much trouble to work through last season?
Keri Russell: I think the main step forward is they are no longer questioning if they should be together as a couple. So they are a unified front decidedly now. But I think, for me, is what I loved most about last season was that it was sort of, at its best, a study of a marriage and the metaphor of marriage and I think this season is the study of a family embedded in this spy world to heighten the stakes. So they are a unified front, but now, for the first time, they are realizing — Elizabeth especially, because Phillip always had it — the threat of outside forces and the threat to their family, just [in terms of] violence. She’s seeing how fragile it all is for the first time, maybe naively. Again, like I did last year for the relationship and the marriage, I think those are such universal themes: fear for your children, sometimes they’re completely ungrounded, sometimes they are real, the influence of outside forces on your kids growing up, and the influence of outside forces on your relationship too. To me, the sense that I get is that it’s really a season about the family and keeping the family safe. Continue reading Keri Russell Talks The Americans: Season 2 – ”The Circle is Tightening Around Them”
To celebrate that The Americans are back this week I have added more amazing Promotional Pictures to gallery.
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– The Americans Promotional Pictures
I added part of scans from newest issue of TV Guide.
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– Magazine Scans TV Guide – February 24 2014
Keri Russell still has that great hair, but as the deadly Soviet spy Elizabeth Jennings on “The Americans” she is a long way from the shy college coed she played on “Felicity” a decade and a half ago. Unlike either of the tightly wound characters, though, Russell is loose and personable.
The now 37-year-old actress does have something in common with Elizabeth, as she is the mother of two. Russell’s children are 6 and 2, younger than her TV children, 14-year-old Paige (Holly Taylor) and 11-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati).
“What’s fun about the show is that Elizabeth goes on all these spy missions, and then she’s in the car flipping out like a normal mom about something that her 14-year-old girl is doing,” Russell said.
That strange dynamic has made FX’s “The Americans” both a hit with fans and a critical success, with two Emmy nominations as well as being named the best new program by the Television Critics Association. Continue reading Keri Russell reflects on the second year of spying in ‘The Americans’
Keri arrives for the ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ taping at the Ed Sullivan Theater on February 20 in New York City.
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– Candids February 20, 2014
Keri Russell sits down to speak with a small gathering of international press on the set of “The Americans,” which returns for a second season Feb. 26 on FX Canada.
You don’t have to be a spy — or even play one on TV — to know something is up. The reporters seem charmed out of their boots, downright perky.
Then she gets it: the press has just met her adorable, Canadian-born co-star, Holly Taylor.
“Holly girl,” says Russell. “She’s so lovely.”
Born in Nova Scotia, Taylor plays Russell and Matthew Rhys’ teenage daughter Paige Jennings on the edgy FX spy drama. The series is set during the cooling off of the Cold War in the early ’80s.
Russell is told that, for a young actress who had never really done a press conference before, Taylor was very impressive.
Russell — who’s been acting since she was a child herself — remembered how “smart and composed” Taylor was in her audition. The director had asked Russell to come in and read a few lines opposite a number of girls. “And she comes in and she’s just so — there’s her milky skin and those brown, brown eyes and she was just so funny and composed. She’s wonderful.” Continue reading Keri Russell lauds young ‘Americans’ co-star
Keri and Matthew Rhys seen filming scenes on the sets of the TV series ‘The Americans’ in Astoria, Queens.
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– The Americans On the Set – February 19 2014
Season 2 of “The Americans” is about more than KGB spies and sex in bars. The critically-acclaimed FX show starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as undercover Soviet operatives who pose as travel agents in mid-’80s Washington, D.C. returns for a second season on Feb. 26. Season 1 introduced viewers to Elizabeth and Philip Jennings’ intricate web of lies. But Season 2 will further complicate the deceptive honey trappings, geopolitical conflicts and — oh yeah — those insane wigs.
On a recent visit to “The Americans” set in Brooklyn, executive producer Joel Fields and members of the cast spoke freely about the portrayal of women, sex and violence in Season 1 and what we can expect from the super secretive Season 2.
Elizabeth turns her focus to her family. She wants to be a better parent.
At the end of Season 1, viewers saw Elizabeth (Keri Russell) get shot and since then, she’s been in recovery. Russell teased that in one of the opening scenes of Season 2, she’s in a dramatic, messy and violent scene. “She spends all these months away and just wants to get back because it’s [her son] Henry’s birthday,” she said. “She’s involved in this really sketchy scene and that’s her entrance back into reality, but then they’re like, ‘Oh, it’s good to be home for his birthday.'” In another early scene in Season 2, Russell said Elizabeth does something “really hardcore” to her daughter Paige. “It involves waking her up and making her clean in the middle of the night,” she said. “The direction was like, ‘Yeah, just a Russian mother.” Even though this doesn’t sound like the best parenting advice, she’s trying. Continue reading ‘The Americans’ Season 2 Refocuses On Family, But Is Full Of Sex & Wigs