Keri Russell
Keri Russell
Keri Lynn Russell is an American actress. She came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002, and for which she won a Golden Globe Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth23 March 1976
CityFountain Valley, CA
CountryUnited States of America
writing creative waitress
Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct it and act in it, she was the creative force behind everything, from the jokes down to the expressions.
song waitress
[ Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress].She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote everything. She chose the colour of our outfits; she designed the set of the diner. She was very, very involved at every level.
character waitress great-character
I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.
trying film waitress
Cheryl [Hines] and I sat through two screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and during the second one, we said to each other: "You know, we don't have to get sad about this. Let's try to enjoy this. Let's just watch it. It's a happy movie [Waitress]."
interesting different waitress
That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.
uplifting hopeful waitress
I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.
different waitress
We shot the movie [Waitress] in 20 days so there wasn't a lot of time to learn. There wasn't a lot of pie baking going on, at least not by me. But we always had pies while we were filming - we ate two different pies every day for lunch!
catalyst
She's the catalyst to get the whole story going.
time
I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
people places
People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'
character bad-relationship thinking
I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?"
easy
I can make cookies and do easy stuff. Pies are very specific and hard to do well though.
home thinking coming-home
I tend to come home and eat a bowl of cereal. I'm not thinking about baking a pie when I'm off work.
true-life serious kind
The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.