Keri Russell on Building Another Complex Onscreen Marriage in ‘The Diplomat’

The actress fronts the new Netflix dramedy about an ambassador trying to divorce her husband in the midst of a diplomatic mess.

’s new role all started — sort of — with Christmas dinner. The actress, who has been extremely selective about her jobs since wrapping the Emmy-winningin 2018, was in the midst of hosting three sets of grandparents for the holidays when word came in to take a Zoom meeting with Debora Cahn. The writer-producer onhad a new series about a foreign service officer whose career plans are redirected when she’s sent to the London embassy, and she wanted Russell to star.

“I was like, I can’t consider doing a show, I’m cooking for 8,000 people right now,” Russell says, laughing. “We had one family in from Wales, my ex-husband’s in from Martha’s Vineyard and my parents were in from Texas. I tried to say no at first because [the show] didn’t make sense for my life at the time.”

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