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Mary

What do you like best about your character?
“The show does a really good job of reversing the typical roles of males and females, and I think it’s a very complicated, in-depth look at a messy, real relationship. What appealed to me in the beginning is that the female was a little less invested in the relationship. That’s such an interesting take because it’s always the woman who is pining after this guy who is cheating on her. And it wasn’t that. She’s like, ‘No, this is our job, and I’m in love with someone else, and that’s what I get from that.’ And [Matthew Rhys’ character, Philip] was the one who was really sweet and sensitive. But then where we ended the fourth season — and I love that it took four seasons for her to finally have emotions — there was so much jealousy for that character and so much pain in him having true feelings, or whatever it was that he had, for the Martha character. That is such a great arc for a character to get to play that.”

Most helpful thing for getting into character
“One of the most enjoyable parts is the trying on of the wigs and 1980s glasses that we do in the hair and makeup trailers. Almost all of them are really bad, and we just sit and laugh with each other and tell each other how bad we look.”

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com

The Americans is no longer a critical hit in hiding.

After three years of Emmy snubs, the spy drama rebounded this year with nominations for best drama series and lead actors Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.

Russell and Rhys, a couple in real life who welcomed a son in May, were “in shock,” says Russell. “We were like, we’ve not been nominated so many times we were so sure we’d never be nominated! But maybe because it’s the fourth season (of the show) there’s so much less pressure. It just feels very fun.”

But there could be consequences. “I know,” she laughs. “We’re like, ‘Oh, no!’ Now no one’s going to like our show now. The underdog position is the place to be.”

Her summer maternity leave is full of little sleep and “fireflies.” The actress, who has two children with her ex, Shane Deary, says she and Rhys will return to shoot the fifth season in New York this October (A sixth in 2018 will wrap up the series). “It wasn’t exactly planned that way, but it did all work out pretty well,” she says of the baby’s timing. “It’s been a pretty fun summer of nature and kids and not a lot of sleep.”

And just like the rest of us, she’s trying to cobble clues about next season. “Before I left for the summer we got tipped off about one certain thing,” she says. “And I was like, ‘Guys, if I need to learn Russian, just tell me now. If we’re going to be doing heavy-duty Russian, I want to be learning it over the summer, not like a week before I have to perform it.”

Source: http://www.usatoday.com