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Keri Russell is abs-olutely fabulous.

The Americans star credits her “nerdy workout” – complete with personalized soundtrack! — for helping her stay slim and impressively toned.

Russell, 37, tells Women’s Health in its May cover story that she has “this really nerdy workout I do in my walk-through closet in our brownstone. I do a workout video and use my own music — whatever is inspiring to me at that time, like Alabama Shakes, the Cure, or Mumford and Sons.”

Plus, she says residing in Brooklyn offers a bonus workout — walking!

“That’s one of the great things about living in Brooklyn and in New York. You get to eat a big rich fatty meal but then you can walk home,” says Russell, who admits she didn’t start eating vegetables until about 30.

“I didn’t grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.”

The former Felicity star, who is mom to daughter Willa Lou and son River, 5, with husband Shane Deary, plays a Russian spy-next-door on the hit FX show that airs Wednesdays at 10, and when she’s training for her role as Elizabeth Jennings she isn’t afraid to break out of her indie workout groove.

“We did do a little fight training type stuff a few weeks before. I did get a bloody lip, which I am sort of proud about, in the boxing training. You should see the other guy though,” she jokes.

The funny, self-deprecating star admits it’s not easy juggling a career and motherhood, but carves out girlfriend time every few weeks and is honest about the difficulties of her competing demands.

“It’s tough,” Russell admits. “I try to quell my guilt by saying I’m a better mom if I’m interested in my own life. I’m not resentful. I can be really engaged when I am there. I like the yin and yang of both worlds, and I think it would be hard for me to give up either one.”

But she’s satisfied with her life for now, except for one thing — her rear-end.

“I’m not a complainer about age. I think my girlfriends all look so much better now than they did 15 years ago. But the thing I notice most is my butt. I used to have a really good, plump butt. Ugh — now my butt’s gone. I do wish I had my 25-year-old butt!”

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It all started with a slap for Matthew Rhys. Trying out for “The Ameri-cans,” he took one in the puss from Keri Russell.

This new FX drama, which airs 10 p.m. Wednesdays, fo-cuses on two KGB spies posing as an ordinary American couple shortly after Ronald Reag-an became president.

As Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, they have a comfortable home in a Washington suburb, two sweet kids, a travel agency they run and, by all signs, a solid piece of the American Dream. No one would suspect they are Russian-born plants bent on burying the United States with subterfuge and brutality.

No one, that is, except their new neighbor, FBI agent Stan Beeman (played by Noah Emmerich with an infectious mix of cunning and dorkiness), who has recently moved in with his family across the street. He represents just one among the many threats of exposure, imprisonment or death they face daily.

“It’s an incredible balancing act to portray: the domesticity of their suburban lives and the struggle of their relationship as an arranged couple, and then the extreme spy stuff,” says Rhys. Continue reading Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play Russian spies in the ‘burbs

In the new FX drama “The Americans,” Keri Russell plays the role of Elizabeth Jennings, a knockout K.G.B. spy living in America in the early 1980s. With the recent announcement of the show’s second season and a new movie in theaters now (“Dark Skies”), Russell’s one busy lady, but not too busy to chat with T about her new job, closet workouts and newfound love of mascara. Continue reading Face Time | Keri Russell

Keri Russell’s “comeback year” has the feel of a reinvention, a re-branding of the dainty young lovely who burst on the scene with “Felicity” back in the past century.

But as different as her flinty mom in the new film “Dark Skies” (not previewed for critics) might seem, as dangerous and “out there” as her Born Again Bolshevik sleeper spy is in TV’s “The Americans,” she refuses to label her return to public view a career makeover.

“The great think about disappearing is that people forget about you a little bit,” Ms. Russell says. “Your past is forgotten. You can come back as something fresh and new.

“These past two years, I’ve come back to all these interesting things that people might not have thought about me for in the past. They just happened.”

She stepped away from film and TV half a dozen years ago, getting married and giving birth to two children, who are now 1 and 5. At 36, she’s a different person — a mom, for starters. And it’s made her a different actress. Continue reading Motherhood changes Keri Russell’s outlook

The name of Keri Russell’s new film may be “Dark Skies,” but in reality, the light is shining brighter than ever on the acclaimed actress’ already successful career.

In a recent interview, Russell told me that she’s read several scripts in the horror and supernatural thriller genre, but there was really nothing that piqued her interest until the script for writer-director Scott Stewart’s “Dark Skies” rolled overhead.

“It’s one of those scripts that I read and instantly thought, ‘That’s going to work.’ It has all the rights for me. It’s scary, but fun scary, but at the core, it was like a family drama,” Russell said. “For me, those are the kinds of movies I like, where you believe in the family, first, to set things up, and then things start happening — like in a ‘Poltergeist’ vein. That’s more of what we were targeting.”

Opening in theaters nationwide on Friday, Russell and Josh Hamilton star as Lacy and Daniel Barrett, a pair of suburban parents whose peaceful existence is turned into a living nightmare as a mysterious alien presence invades their home and preys upon them. Continue reading Keri Russell thrilled to navigate ‘Dark Skies’

Dark Skies opens in theaters this week (Friday, February 22nd) and ShockTillYouDrop.com had an opportunity to speak with actress Keri Russell (The Americans) and producer Jason Blum.

Russell and Josh Hamilton star in the film as a suburban couple whose lives become a nightmare when a terrifying alien presence enters their home each night to prey upon their children. Increasingly isolated from skeptical friends and neighbors, the couple is forced to take matters into their own hands to save their family.

Scott Stewart (Legion, Priest) directs. Head inside for the interviews! Continue reading Shock Interview: Keri Russell & Jason Blum Talk Dark Skies

When she was 15 years old, Keri Russell was cast on the All-New Mickey Mouse Club. For the next three years, the fresh-faced youngster came of age alongside Ryan Gosling, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, forming the base of what could retroactively be described as the modern American pop culture landscape. All of which makes Russell’s latest foray into that culture so intriguing.

Twenty years after she landed America’s signature kids program, Russell is playing Elisabeth Jennings, a Cold War-era Washington D.C. Stepford wife who leads a double life as a KGB spy. As if to hammer the point home, the new FX series The Americans opens with Russell, best known as the soft-hearted Felicity in the romantic dramedy series of the same name, performing fellatio on an unsuspecting American target.

The Mickey Mouse Club, it certainly is not.

We caught up with Russell to discuss her return to dramatic television, memories of the Cold War and her most sexually graphic role to date. Continue reading Q&A: Keri Russell talks on-screen oral sex and what it’s like to play a Russian spy on The Americans

It’s time to get past the haircut. Keri Russell certainly has.

In fact, the former “Felicity” star has moved so far beyond her famous pixie cut that she’s now realizing that there’s something else out there — namely, aliens. That’s right, Russell’s latest project is the sci-fi/horror film “Dark Skies.” She plays a mother under siege from all angles: financial, familial and supernatural. When strange things start happening, such as her youngest son claiming visits from “the sandman,” unexplained items moving inexplicably throughout the house and scary episodes she can’t remember, Russell’s character takes matters into her own hands, to thrilling result.

NextMovie sat down with Russell in New York City ahead of the movie to discuss her thoughts on aliens, the time she almost drowned while hanging out with Anthony Kiedis and, yes, the haircut. Continue reading Questions and Answers With Keri Russell