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The Diplomat boss, Keri Russell talk season 3

“I’m interested in those moments where you feel like a line has been breached and then you decide the line should move,” showrunner Debora Cahn says.

Grace Penn is now president.

In the final moments of The Diplomat’s second season, Hal (Rufus Sewell) shocked everyone by calling President Rayburn (Michael McKean) with the news of Grace’s (Allison Janney) involvement in the attack on the British vessel. He shocked Rayburn so much that the man died. And when season 3 picks up, we’re back in that moment: Grace Penn is president, and she — alongside Kate (Keri Russell) and everyone else — is trying to figure out what just happened.

“What I love is seeing the crazy minutia of, legally, what has to happen to make her president,” Russell tells Entertainment Weekly.

For showrunner Debora Cahn, change was always a given. “It’s such a part of the fabric of working in the foreign service,” Cahn says. “This is a story about coming in, not knowing about a place, getting to know the place, and then as soon as you feel like you have a handle on it, you’re off to someplace else. Or all of the dynamics have shifted.”

And with each change, the characters will have to check in on what matters — both for them, personally, and for the country they’ve promised to serve. “What we’re looking for are situations that change your moral perspective on the picture you’re looking at,” Cahn says. “There’s been an earthquake. You have to take all of your principles and values and see how they need to hopefully not disappear but shift for the new reality. We’re telling a story about people who are used to shifting reality all the time.” Continue reading The Diplomat boss, Keri Russell talk season 3

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Keri Russell On Her Second Emmy Nomination For ‘The Diplomat’ & The Exhilaration Of Playing A Messy Foreign Ambassador: “It’s The Losing That Is Enjoyable”

Keri Russell can’t get enough of the political playground that Debora Cahn has built in Netflix‘s The Diplomat.

The actress, who recently earned her second Emmy nomination for her role as U.S. Foreign Ambassador Kate Wyler on the political drama, radiates glee when she discusses the project, which she tells Deadline “is one of my most favorite jobs I’ve ever worked on.”

“It’s just hitting such a sweet spot, I think, with age, for me, and comfort in yourself and comfort with the way you are in the world. I love it so much. I don’t want Debora to ever get sick of writing it, because then what am I going to do?” she laughed.

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How Keri Russell and Allison Janney Changed the Game in The Diplomat Season 2

The stakes have never been higher in creator and writer Debora Cahn’s The Diplomat. The second season of the Golden Globe Award–nominated drama opens moments after the first season’s climactic conclusion: Kate Wyler (Keri Russell), an American diplomat and ambassador to the United Kingdom, has just learned about an explosion in London that affects her husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell), and members of her staff, including her deputy chief of mission, Stuart Hayford (Ato Essandoh).

It’s only the latest crisis Kate must navigate: She’s developed a romantic connection with Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi), while also unofficially auditioning for the role of vice president in a struggling administration back home and investigating an attack on a British aircraft carrier by an unknown perpetrator.

Showrunner and executive producer Cahn (The West Wing) saw Season 2 as an opportunity to examine the trauma and emotions that arise from such a terrifying event, and the lingering impact this has on relationships, both interpersonal and diplomatic. “This horrific tragedy, and what events like this do to a group of people who are working together overseas, immediately took over the season — almost more than we had initially anticipated,” explains the Writers Guild of America Award winner. “The healing and grieving process is uneven and hard to predict; it was something that we wanted to honor as realistically as possible.”

The complete interview can be read over at Netflix.

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THR’s Drama Actress Roundtable

Six leading ladies — including Helen Mirren, Cristin Milioti and Keri Russell — talk beauty, breaking free of expectations and rebuffing some really bad advice: “Someone said, ‘You’ll never get work if you don’t have a nose job.'”

Six actresses at the absolute top of their game — Parker Posey (The White Lotus) and Keri Russell (The Diplomat) among them — aimed to diagnose the issue over the course of an hour during a raucous conversation that dug into everything from their most formative audition experiences to the humor and humiliation of filming a sex scene … only for it to land on the cutting-room floor.

The complete interview can be read over at The Hollywood Reporter.