As seasoned espionage pros, they didn’t give up much, and they didn’t indulge in too much nostalgia. But for an hour or so on Wednesday evening, five core players of “The Americans” reunited in Mid…
and Noah Emmerich were joined by showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields for a lively reunion conversation hosted by the Paley Center for Media.
“First seasons are hard. And the first season of this show was hard. It started with Hurricane Sandy wiping out the sets the week before we’re supposed to start shooting,” Fields recalled. “And it sort of and it got harder from there. So we spent a lot of late nights into early mornings watching the sun rise together in our writers offices…And we were forged really what has become a great friendship and a great creative collaboration that continues to this day.
“There was something about that era. ‘The Sopranos’ had come out and set the stage for doing this kind of short, intense drama. We can already see that this was a very specific moment in time, and everything got a lot of attention,” Weisberg said. “It didn’t exist before, and it’s gone away. And I do think sometimes if we hadn’t have hit that moment we might not have been able to make the show at all. So it was very lucky.
Rhys, who now stars in the HBO drama “Perry Mason,” recalled the moment in the pilot when he knew the storytelling would have dimension for the unconventional couple of Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings “I lot of times they’d say the episode where I get kidnapped and then I beat the shit out of Margo,” Russell said, to a roar from the crowd. “People would always say they’d be watching the episode and they’d be into it and it was interesting, but when that scene happened people were like ‘Whoa,’ they’re not lying.”
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