Talking with Keri Russell
From the 9/27/99 issue of People magazine
Thanks to Kimberly for
transcribing this.
Her wild curly mane may not have inspired as many copycat cuts as
Jennifer
Anistion's "the Rachel," but Felicity star Keri Russell
was clearly one of
last year's best-tressed TV stars. On Sept. 26th, The WB drama
returns for
its sophomore season on a new night, Sunday, and after a few
episodes, its
hero sports a new and drastically shorter do. What gives? The
suggestion for
a fresh look actually came from a producer, but Russell, 23,
willingly
submitted to the scissors on Aug. 21. " It's sooo
short," she says. "But
it's so liberating. It's so quick for me to get ready. I don't
know what I
did before."
Much has changed for Russell, a former MMC Mousketeer and star of
the
washed-up Malibu Shores (1996). As last year's It Girl, she says,
" I felt
nervous, tense, and bewildered." These days, notes the
actress, who shares
an L.A. apartment with Tony Lucca (a fellow Mousketeer and MS
co-star)
"it's easier to relax." Fans, however, might be a bit
tense about last
season's cliff hanger: Did she choose brawny Ben or nice-guy
Noel? Russell
won't even give a hint. "All I can say is, I think, everyone
will LOVE IT,"
she teases. Of course, she's easy to please. "They were both,"
she declares,
"such good options."
Under the photo of Russell with her new short do, it says:
Russell (with her new do, above) spent the summer in Ireland,
where she
"acted my age and had fun."
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