Married couple Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are both nominated for Emmys this year, Russell for 'The Diplomat' and Rhys for 'Widow's Bay.' The pair take time out of a busy award season to test how well they know facts about each other such as the names of Rhys' horses, how many episodes of 'The Americans' they shot, and how old Russell was when she joined The Mickey Mouse Club.
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Two actors, Matthew and Carrie, participate in a lighthearted Q&A session. They discuss their personal history, their Welsh heritage, their acting careers, and their current relationship dynamics, blending professional achievements with humorous personal anecdotes.
We hardly ever see each other, we don't like to.
It's interesting.
We just come together for this ----.
Yeah.
I did pee publicly in the park.
Okay, okay. God damn it.
I better take a sip of beer.
Where did you both first meet?
We both know this one.
He's like, I have no idea.
Are you ready?
No, hang on.
You're giving the details?
Three, two, one.
What'd you say?
Oh, Jennifer Grey's kickball party.
In Ruffsack Canyon.
I would like to point out both answers are correct.
Yes, that's what I meant.
Yours and my...
I'm just a showbiz whore, so I wanted to get her name in.
I mean, to be perfectly honest, we've said it so many times,
it's rough, people go, oh, for ****'s sake.
They're like barfing in their mouths right now.
Oh, God, just change the story.
Let's make up a new story.
I bought an eight ball of cocaine from her in a parking lot.
What is Matthew's favorite Welsh slang word?
Oh, okay.
Oh, how do I spell it, though?
I don't know how to spell it, but I can say it.
Go on, then.
You say it on...
We'll go three, two, one.
You say it.
Three, two, one.
Pied.
What did you say?
Pied.
Oh, my gosh, was it?
Yes.
I spelled it right?
Yes.
Come on.
It means stop.
Or don't.
Don't.
He's constantly saying it to Sam.
Pied.
I think our son thought his name was Pied for like the first eight years of his life.
Pied.
What do you miss most about Wales?
Me or her?
You.
Oh.
Oh, everything.
The pub culture, the people, the humour, fish and chips, the landscape, coastline.
Rain all the time.
Yeah, I do miss the rain.
I know.
On a scale of one to ten, how good is Kerry's Welsh accent?
Oh, accent.
Accent.
Yeah, see, that's a Cardiff accent.
See, a lot of people think people from Cardiff sound very similar to Bostonians because we say
Pack the Can.
The long A.
Mars Bar, Barack Obama, Maserati, Aston Martin.
She does a very good Cardiff accent.
I don't.
You do?
I don't.
Hey.
How's your hair?
Tony Blair, do your hair.
Welsh is a hard accent.
It is.
It's really hard.
And there's so many different dialects, like, you know, Matthew grew up in Cardiff,
which is a very different accent from his cousins from the north, like near Snowdonia.
Wildly different accents.
Kind of like our country.
Yeah.
You have a great American accent.
Well, thanks very much.
How many episodes of The Americans did you shoot?
Hang on.
I've got to do the math.
Oh, ****.
You shushed.
Oh, God.
How many seasons did we do?
Don't do it yet.
I can't do this.
I'm not even sure I'm right, to be honest.
Wait, how does this work?
How does this work?
How does TV work?
Which one was The Americans again?
This is a guess, a total guess.
Okay.
Oh, no.
Three.
Was it 12 or 13?
Was it 12?
Three, two, one, turn.
What was it?
The correct answer is 75.
You guessed the same as me?
Yeah, six times 13.
Oh.
What other projects would you like to work on together?
Heart to Heart, a remake of Heart to Heart.
When they met, it was murder.
Oh, what was the other one?
Oh, Moonlighting.
Moonlighting.
We'll pitch Moonlighting as well.
Although she wants to be Bruce Willis, which is weird.
How old was Carrie when she joined the Mickey Mouse Club?
22.
Wouldn't that be amazing?
Yeah.
I don't think you know this.
I'm going to give it a wild guess.
Three, two, one, go.
Shit.
What did you say?
I don't know.
I'm just auditioning with a bunch of friends,
with a lot of very talented kids,
and I was not one of those talented kids.
Oh, stop.
No, like, you know, one of the kids who auditioned
is that amazing Broadway girl.
Brian Gosling.
No, Sutton Foster.
Like, she was one of the girls.
Like, they were like wildly talented kids.
Go on, do the roll call, or I will.
What, of the famous ones?
Yeah.
Go on.
The famous ones?
Like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera,
Justin Timberlake, Brian Gosling.
Anyway, they were all really talented.
What's Matthew's favorite genre of film or TV?
Oh.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
You're going to just copy my answer.
No, I'm not.
Okay.
Three, two, one, go.
Oh, that's good.
It's true.
I heard the other day her hair belongs in the Smithsonian.
I watch things like Alone.
I also watch it Alone because no one else will watch it with me.
I come and I go, hey, what do you watch?
You're like, I'm like more tough guy stuff.
I'm like, yeah.
Just like guys who don't wear makeup for a living.
You know what I mean?
Who know how to kind of, you know, process an animal.
Like building fences and like, you know.
Shelters.
They don't need a fence.
They're not raising livestock.
Just tough guy stuff all around.
Hunting, fishing.
Yeah.
Cutting down.
Everything I can't do.
You can do actually all that stuff.
I can do all that stuff.
It's stupid.
I like to talk about it.
I played a hunter once.
It's stupid.
Did you wear makeup?
Yep.
How do you pick what project to work on?
Cash.
Cash basis.
Like what pays most wins.
Very simple.
Three children and a mortgage.
I'll get after it.
I have no shame.
I'll haul myself with the best of them.
No, in fairness, Widow's Baby is a script I'd never seen.
It's so good.
The like of.
I was desperate to do that.
And knowing Hiro Murai was going to direct.
I was like, oh my God.
Matthew, almost everything he does, he's always like.
He thinks he's not great.
He thinks he's always like.
I think that's every actor.
This was the only thing he's ever come home.
And I was like, oh, he likes this.
But that means like he goes, yeah, it was fine.
It was fine.
And I'm like, oh, you liked it.
I could tell he thought it was fun and good.
Well, I had fun making it.
I genuinely had no idea how it would, A, turn out.
But B, how it would be received.
It was a big swing.
It was a swing.
What's Carey's favorite genre of film or TV?
OK.
Three, two, one.
Oh, that's true, actually, yeah.
You do kind of go, look at this.
I'm like, where did you find this?
You're like, look at the trailer for this.
I'm like, where did you find this?
But inevitably, her taste is always impeccable.
You're always like seeking out those kind of road,
less traveled films, apart from that one.
Probably the film you watch the most, though.
I love it.
It just makes, it's my happy place.
That's true.
I didn't think of that.
It's great.
It's so fun.
The music's so fun.
The comedy's good.
I love that it's a straight up romantic comedy,
but the end is actually good.
I don't know.
I like it.
Does it for me.
In which season of The Diplomat will Carey's character become president?
Oh, God.
I feel in many ways you play it as if you were the president.
That's the way I play it.
Yeah.
I'm bossy to everybody.
That is true.
Three, two, one.
Ooh!
What did you say?
Oh, my God.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, I do play it like I'm the president.
Not really, though.
Just cut to that.
Get a close-up of that as if I got it right.
What?
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
Rufus Sewell dies.
Cool.
How did Felicity address her pen pal when she would send tapes from college?
Dear pen pal.
He's never seen it, so.
Yeah, I have.
I loved it.
I'll win.
I loved it.
Yes, I'll win.
But I guess I've never seen Brothers and Sisters.
Nope.
Okay.
Three, two, one.
Which is sort of a connection for Brothers and Sisters.
Did I get it right?
Oh.
I just think pen pals are always called Penelope, aren't they?
Or should be.
I think it's kind of a fictional idea, to be honest.
Pen pals.
Like, I have this pen pal in Auckland.
I'm like, do you?
Yes, Willa has a pen pal in China.
She's called Teemu.
What are the names of the horses Matthew adopted?
Oh, God.
He doesn't have them anymore, but.
Three, two, one.
Oh, there you go.
Did I do it right?
Yes, you did.
We are just in sync.
Yes.
One died, and then one went to live with a friend in Malibu.
Oh, that's right.
He's having the time of his life.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, they were wild mustangs.
I brought them out of the prison system.
And there's about five prisons in the U.S. that has a mustang program.
And then I was having trouble with one of them.
And so my friend, who's a cowboy, said, I use this horse like on my horses.
And as I said, he was a rodeo cowboy.
So I thought, he must be legit.
And she's in Britain.
You do it kind of through Zoom.
And first of all, she's like, oh, you talk to them in a different language.
And I was like, yeah, I talk to them in Welsh.
And then they're like, yeah, they don't understand you.
And then she said, you wear a white cowboy hat.
Oh, it was the cap.
That's right, it was the hat.
And the guys who did the roundup, who had been quite brutal with the horses,
they reminded them.
So I changed my cowboy hat.
And they started listening.
Yeah, I'm speaking to them in English.
I do want to say that this kind of teenage horse that gave him trouble
gave me no trouble when I rode him.
Anyway, I changed my whole outfit.
I used to ride them in sweatpants after that.
No, you didn't.
No, of course I didn't.
OK.
Who has been nominated for more Emmys?
Me!
Let's answer.
I'm giving.
Hang on, hang on.
I have no idea.
Try it, try as you might.
I have no idea.
Um, OK.
OK.
I have no idea.
I'm just going to guess.
Oh, oh, but then there's this year.
Shoot.
I'm ready when you are.
OK, three, two, one, go.
What'd you say?
Six.
Me!
Am I right?
Wait, hang on.
Let's go through yours.
Nine?
No, I said you had nine.
Three?
No, I don't have nine.
Where do you have her?
Carrie has eight.
Eight. So one, two, three for.
Oh, did you?
Oh, for Felicity.
No.
No, I didn't get nominated for Felicity.
You won a Globe for Felicity.
Yeah.
One, two, three.
Three for Americans.
Two for.
Thank you, Tony Kranz.
Two or three for Diplomat.
Three for the Diplomat.
So that's six.
What were the other two?
Maybe it's because the show made it.
Oh.
Why are you trying to like hold me back from my nominations?
Because I'm male.
What was it like when you found out you were both nominated this year?
That was such a good day.
Oh, yes. Yeah, it was actually.
I had planned this date date.
Yes, you did.
Because we hardly ever see each other.
We don't like to.
Keeps it interesting.
We've been separate for a long and.
Separated for a long time.
We just come together for this ----.
Yeah.
We hadn't been in the same city in a while.
And so I planned like a little fun date in the city.
Yeah, you did. It was a great day.
Lots of little things.
Yeah.
And it just so happened that it fell on the nomination day, which I totally forgot.
Yeah.
We did a few art things and and then we ended at this really cool bar
that I couldn't get into on my own.
So I asked someone to help me get into.
We showed up at 530 right when they opened.
Like good Floridians.
That was a great day.
And we really both said, wow, this is crazy.
We might never be nominated again.
And what a fun thing to do.
Now we don't have to hate each other.
For now.
I did pee publicly in the park.
Okay.
God damn it.