“I think it was approached with caution and a great deal of trepidation, and coupled with that, for me, was certainly fun and excitement.”
Matthew Rhys says his on-set romance with Keri Russell on “The Americans” was approached tentatively.
“We were both at an age where we’ve done it long enough to go, ‘You know workplace [romances] can be disastrous,” he told Page Six exclusively at The Paley Center for Media on Wednesday night. “So, I think it was approached with caution and a great deal of trepidation,” the actor, 47, continued. “And coupled with that, for me, was certainly fun and excitement.”“Thank God!” she agreed.©FX Networks/Courtesy:Everett Collection / Everett Collectionwhere they played a pair of 1980s Russian KGB sleeper agents with two children who have no idea what their parents actually do. The show debuted in January 2013 and ran for six seasons.
“We went to a kickball party hosted by Jennifer Grey,” he said explaining that it was then that he asked for Russell’s number.©FX Networks/Courtesy Everett Collection“She gave it to me, but this is where it all falls apart,” Rhys shared. “I have no memory of this because I was very inebriated, but I left a very inebriated message on her answering machine, as people had in those days.
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