Keri Russell sits down to guess lines from some of her most memorable TV and movie roles. She discusses doing stunts with Tom Cruise in 'Mission: Impossible III', the best part about being on a 'Star Wars' set and falling in love while shooting 'The Americans.'
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00:00What do you got? Already it's making me laugh. I have no idea.
00:06It took me a second.
00:11Oh brother, here we go. Now? Huh.
00:19Hey, could you do me a favor and not put your underwear in my fridge?
00:27Felicity?
00:30That was pretty good.
00:31Hey, could you do me a favor and not put your underwear in my fridge?
00:35It was just such a fun show to make and we had such good friends on that show.
00:40And JJ and Matt, who created the show, were all still very close.
00:44And it was just a sweet little something of a show.
00:47And kind of the first thing I did that was really, like, legit.
00:53I auditioned with a ton of girls.
00:55They were all such great actresses and we all looked completely different.
00:59They were all saying how sad the story was.
01:02And I was like, huh, I think it's really funny.
01:05Am I getting something wrong?
01:07I mean, I thought it was sad too, but I thought it was hilarious.
01:10Okay, I'm out. How many rounds you got?
01:16I have no idea. What is that about?
01:19Oh, so it's Mission Impossible. Wow.
01:22I'm out. How many rounds you got?
01:23Epic gun battle scene. Epic. Oh my God.
01:26First of all, Tom Cruise does most of his own stunts.
01:30So because they're seeing his face, I got to do it too.
01:33Like jump out of a building that's about to explode,
01:36landing on top of a van as it pulls away.
01:39And he goes, listen, if we're jumping down and your hair catches on fire,
01:43just shake it out. I was like, okay.
01:49Really? P.S. I have a lot more hair than he does.
01:54I think it was around this line.
01:56Tom is supposed to look at me and then like in slow motion,
01:58chuck me like a mag. It goes.
02:01And then I catch it or chuck me a gun. I don't even know.
02:04And then I catch it and then go.
02:07Some badass move. JJ said, no, no.
02:09So what you're going to do is he's going to pretend to throw
02:12and then we'll superimpose like something CGI.
02:14And so just make your hand like that.
02:16And Tom goes, no, no, no, she can do it.
02:18And I was like, Tom, I can't.
02:20So he's like, we're going to do one. We're going to do one.
02:22Let's see if she can do it. Did it.
02:30It was so cool.
02:32All right. Glasses on.
02:35They win by making you think you're alone.
02:37Remember, there's more of us.
02:40I know what this is. Star Wars.
02:42I didn't have many lines in that.
02:44So if I don't remember this, it's a problem.
02:47I had a cool outfit.
02:51I can tell you that much.
02:54Zori.
02:56It took me a second.
02:58They win by making you think you're alone.
03:01Remember?
03:03Again, JJ, I guess I only get my jobs through JJ.
03:07I'll send him some flowers or something.
03:09The cool thing about Star Wars, and I feel like these days,
03:13everything is so, like, CGI, or, you know,
03:17they're like, this is what's going to be behind you.
03:20Star Wars, they actually build it.
03:22It was incredible.
03:24Huge troops of stormtroopers walk by,
03:27and that was, it just made it so cool.
03:30I don't think they do that often anymore.
03:32I just think there's not as much money in filmmaking,
03:35and so it was cool to be a part of that.
03:39Oh, God.
03:41If I wanted to deal with him...
03:45If I wanted to deal with him, you don't think he'd be dealt with?
03:49Ugh, so tough.
03:51It's got to be the Americans.
03:53Obviously, right?
03:55The only time I've ever been tough is with the Americans.
03:59If I'd wanted to deal with him, you don't think he'd be dealt with?
04:02The fact that I was working with Matthew,
04:04falling in love with him, we were shooting at night,
04:06playing spies, I was wearing lots of silky shirts
04:09and gold jewelry and high-heeled boots.
04:11It was all so fun,
04:14and shooting in New York, being at home.
04:17It was also fun at the age we were,
04:20because when you're in your 20s and you're young
04:23and everything's just such a blur,
04:25we were old enough to know that it was cool.
04:27Yeah.
04:29That's all.
04:31Uh-oh, glasses on.
04:33You haven't stumped me yet.
04:35You spent seven years...
04:37You spent seven years building a ticket
04:39where an elderly guy could hand the baton to an electable woman
04:42and deliver us the first female president.
04:45Now you want someone with no voting record,
04:47no baggage, no opinions.
04:49When you read these things,
04:51I mean, it's like Debra Kahn is a psychic witch of some sort.
04:55The diplomat.
04:57You spent seven years building a ticket
04:59where an elderly guy could hand the baton to an electable woman
05:02and deliver us the first female president.
05:05I just think Debra, what she's created is so...
05:08It's so smart and funny,
05:10and, you know, I wasn't looking to go back to a show.
05:14I had such a good run on The Americans.
05:16I was kind of just busy taking care of kids and, you know, doing laundry.
05:20And, um...
05:22And then I read her pilot,
05:25and I was like, oh, no, it's really good.
05:27And then I couldn't stop thinking about it.
05:29It was just so fun and not depressing.
05:32So I did it.
05:34You look back at how long ago we shot that
05:36and everything that's happening now,
05:38and it's wild.
05:39And I just hope people know that we did that so long ago.
05:42But anyway.
05:44I'm trying to do it without glasses this time.
05:47I am taking the fucking children home.
05:50Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
05:53Cocaine Bear.
05:55I am taking the fucking children home!
05:58Elizabeth Banks.
05:59Elizabeth Banks.
06:00How great.
06:02She's rad.
06:03She called me on the phone,
06:05talking to me about this completely other thing,
06:08and then she texted me the next day and said,
06:10hey, uh, you want to read this crazy movie I'm making called Cocaine Bear?
06:16I was like, what?
06:17I read it, and it was insanity.
06:19Then Margo Martindale texted me and said,
06:21are you doing this fucking movie?
06:23And I was like, are you doing this fucking movie?
06:25Well, now I'm definitely doing this fucking movie.
06:27And Margo is by far the best thing in this movie.
06:30Her and Jesse and I hanging out in a forest in the middle of Ireland,
06:35COVID times, drinking our faces off.
06:38Oh boy.
06:40Where are we going next?
06:42I should never drink.
06:43I do stupid things when I drink, like sleep with my husband.
06:46That's very funny.
06:49What is this one?
06:50I don't know.
06:51Is this The Diplomat?
06:53I should never drink.
06:54I do stupid things when I drink,
06:56like sleep with my husband.
06:57How great for Adrienne Shelley.
06:59Oh my gosh.
07:00How cool for her that this just, like, lived on and on.
07:04I never saw the show.
07:05Don't hate me.
07:06Actually, Jesse, Tyler Ferguson, who's in Cocaine Bear with me,
07:09who's a big theater person, him and his husband,
07:12they're like, you have to come see it.
07:14Bring Willa, my 12-year-old.
07:16And then something happened and it didn't go, and now it's done.
07:20So sorry.
07:21But he said I can watch it on TV now.
07:23Well, I have learned one thing.
07:25It's not polite to hit a lady.
07:27I have no idea.
07:29No idea.
07:31Oh, because I did the voice.
07:33I should have known that.
07:35Well, I have learned one thing.
07:38It's not polite to hit a lady.
07:40I get nervous when I hear my own voice.
07:42I mean, maybe some people love the sound of their own voice,
07:44but it makes me nervous.
07:45I'm like, ugh.
07:46Usually I take it off my ears so I don't hear myself
07:49because then I keep trying to back away from the microphone.
07:51They're like, um, no, no, you have to get close.
07:54I'm like, um, I'm not a pro.
07:56I wish I was.
08:00This is a long one.
08:01Hold on.
08:03It was a virus created...
08:05Already it's making me laugh.
08:07It was a virus created by scientists in a lab.
08:09The chimps they were testing on didn't really have a say in the matter.
08:13Oh, well, that's got to be Planet of the Apes.
08:16It was a virus created by scientists in a lab.
08:19The chimps they were testing on didn't really have a say in the matter.
08:21Spare me the hippy-dippy bullshit.
08:23Andy Serkis.
08:24What a dreamboat.
08:25Such a great guy.
08:26Such a great actor.
08:27I want to see him, like, play a dad.
08:30He is so good.
08:31I know he's made this name for himself doing all this other stuff,
08:34but he's so good.
08:35And Matt Reeves, who I adore and love, directed that.
08:38And Cody Smith-McPhee was in this,
08:41and I think he's such a good actor.
08:43Do you remember him in that vampire movie that Matt did?
08:46Do you know what I'm talking about?
08:47Or are you just shining me on?
08:48You're shining me on.
08:49Matt did the American version of Let the Right One In,
08:52the Swedish vampire with the two little kids.
08:55And I remember at the time going, oh, Matt, don't remake that,
08:58even though Matt can do no wrong in my book.
09:00But I was like, oh, don't do it.
09:02And he did.
09:03He did it.
09:04He was so good for that.
09:05And Cody was excellent in that.
09:07Really good actor.
09:11Okay.
09:14Classic.
09:15Some of my best work.
09:16There is no way I'm changing those diapers.
09:21Yeah.
09:22What was it called, though?
09:23Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.
09:2515 years old.
09:26There is no way I'm changing those diapers.
09:29That is some of the biggest hair you will ever see in your whole life
09:32on a human being.
09:34I shot it at the same time that I shot The Mickey Mouse Club.
09:37Also another classic.
09:39I was a dancer.
09:41I was living in Colorado, and a bunch of my dance friends
09:43were going to go to this big open call audition
09:46at the Denver Convention Center.
09:49And I waited in line with hundreds of other little desperate kids.
09:53And I just went because it was cool.
09:55All of my friends were doing it.
09:57And we did like a little dance, and you had to read a little script
10:00about, you know, a mermaid brushing her teeth with chocolate or something.
10:05They said, will you sing a song?
10:07And I said, I don't sing.
10:08And I remember Matt Casella, who was the genius casting director
10:12on that thing, who cast all those little kids who were way more famous than me,
10:16said, little girl, do you see how many kids are waiting outside?
10:20You're telling me you don't want to sing a song?
10:22And I said, honestly, I don't sing.
10:25And so they brought me back, and I had to sing Happy Birthday or something.
10:29What else you got?
10:30What else you got?
10:31I'll focus.
10:32I'll be serious.
10:34Check out that five.
10:36What?
10:37What?
10:39Check out that five-horsepower motor.
10:41I love this place.
10:43Not.
10:45What?
10:46What?
10:47I don't even know what that sentence means.
10:50What?
10:51What is this?
10:52Oh, Mickey Mouse Club?
10:55Wow.
10:56Check out that five-horsepower motor.
10:58I love this place.
11:01Not.
11:03Oh, the Mickey Mouse Club.
11:06Classic.
11:07Another classic, guys.
11:08I know I have said it before, but I really mean it.
11:12I was like the least talented on that show.
11:14I even venture to say, and I'm not joking, that me and Ryan Gosling were the least talented on that show.
11:21I really mean it.
11:22Even looking at us, it's not like we were some insanely beautiful people.
11:27Some other kids were.
11:29We were not.