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What to Expect from The Americans’ Bomb-Rigged Third Season

Visiting the set of the FX drama’s new season and talking to Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, and more about our favorite TV spies and a ticking bomb.

“It’s been such a big surprise from the beginning,” Keri Russell says, walking between takes last November on the Brooklyn set of The Americans, FX’s acclaimed, bona-fide water-cooler series. “The script for the pilot was so great, though. I thought, ‘Why not?’ I had no idea the arc it would take and I had no idea that it would evolve into the place it has. And it scared me to commit to a series. But I was interested. And it’s been so enjoyable and fun to work on. It’s been so interesting. But I had no idea it would turn into this.”

The “this” Russell is referring to is a show that seems familiar at first and yet is completely original—a spy show set in the early 1980s, when Reagan’s Cold War was at its coldest, in which the “bad guys,” two married Soviet operatives, are the heroes. “You never know, you know what I mean?” Russell elaborates. “That’s the gamble, especially with a series, because you go so many different places. At its core, the stuff I like the most about the show is always the complicated marriage, the relationship, the pushing and pulling, and the weird sexuality. I love that stuff. To me, it’s the most relatable part.” Continue reading What to Expect from The Americans’ Bomb-Rigged Third Season

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‘The Americans’ Star Keri Russell on Season 3: Is it Sexist to Not Recruit Paige?

“Think of all the military families… it would be perfectly normal for a 16 year-old to say, ‘I’m going to go into service,'” she said.

The Russian spy couple is back.

The Americans star Keri Russell promises that the third installment of the FX period drama, bowing Wednesday, will be just as much about marriage as it will be about turning tricks and kicking ass.

In the previous season, Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings were starting to look like an actual married couple. But that sense of normalcy doesn’t last long. A wedge, once again, is driven between the two when they respond differently to the Center wanting to recruit their daughter, Paige. Phillip, less loyal to his homeland, can’t bear to see his daughter enter into their dangerous world, while Elizabeth believes Paige deserves to know the truth about who she is.

Russell says that upcoming episodes explore challenges that any married person can relate to, with more top-secret missions, affairs and, of course, wigs along the way. “For me being a woman that reads films, this is a good f—king job,” Russell said of her complicated female character. “Of the last things I’ve read, you’re a girlfriend. You got two scenes going, ‘Are you OK?'” This is so much better than that.”

Here, Russell explains Elizabeth’s perspective, talks her onscreen sexual relationship with co-star Matthew Rhys, and reveals her favorite cover identity. Continue reading ‘The Americans’ Star Keri Russell on Season 3: Is it Sexist to Not Recruit Paige?

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‘The Americans’: It Takes a Village to Create Those Undercover Disguises

One of the most fun aspects of The Americans, which premiers its third season on FX this week, is the wide range of wigs, makeup, and wardrobe that goes into creating the disguises that stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys sport as undercover KGB agents Elizabeth and Philip Jennings. Three teams of talented artists work in tandem to create the looks that can, for example, have Elizabeth dressed dowdily as she pretends to be her husband’s sister so that he can marry another woman — it’s all in the spy game, people — or Philip don a scraggly wig and glasses to play “Clark,” the alter ego who married the naïve CIA employee Martha. Yahoo TV spent a day on the set of The Americans in New York recently to document one of the show’s signature transformations, as Russell and Rhys got their Sid and Nancy on. Check out the photos below:

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3×05 – Salang Pass Press Release

Philip juggles the many women in his life while Elizabeth takes drastic measures to complete a mission. Stan asserts a plan to save Nina with an unlikely ally.

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