Keri Russell, the star of Felicity and famous for her long, curly mane, has done some growing up since her hit tv show ended and all of the criticism she endured after she cut her hair.
Russell, 31 and new mom to her almost six-month old son, River, has more important things to worry about than her hair these days. She says in an interview at the Four Seaons Hotel in Beverly Hills, "There is something weird that I feel happens that noone told me about, which is that the day you have the baby you take a crazy pill. You get crazy about anything having to do with children-and it doesn't have to be your own child."
She says it's a good crazy though. “I was watching Finding Nemo on video, and I sobbed. I could not pull myself together, and that was at the beginning of the movie! My husband was like, ‘Should we turn this off?’ ”
Russell makes her home in Brooklyn, New York, but is on the West Coast for a publicity blitz for her new movie, August Rush and Waitress, which is now out on DVD. Waitress is a bittersweet success story. Writer-director Adrienne Shelly was murdered in her New York City office before the movie’s release date—by a construction worker who reportedly confessed to killing her after she complained about the noise he was making in an apartment below her.
Keri remembers when she first met Shelly. “I met her in a diner in New York. I think I had waffles, and we just talked about the script…I told her how funny and touching I thought it was.”
About the audition, “She made me audition at her apartment. It was really awkward—just me and her and a video camera.”
Next thing she knew, Russell was lying in a bed with Sisto for a scene in which her character reluctantly gives in to her husband’s pathetic begging for some carnal attention. “There’s a shot that, when I look, I can fully see myself laughing because Jeremy was being so disgusting and gross. Not gross in the way you think." She wouldn't elaborate what she meant though.
Keri would love to leave Hollywood sometimes, but then her reality sets in. “I do think about moving and having some land and having like five kids,” she says. “And we would just be like, ‘Okay, this year, we’ll make and sell cheese. But I’ve been in this world too long to know that you need money. I just bought a house. I ain’t gonna be taking off anytime soon. I’ve got a mortgage to pay!”
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