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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why JJ Abrams Cast Keri Russell on Felicity Even Though He Thought She Wasn’t a Good Fit · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody who's a fan of the nineteen nineties TV show
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  Speaker 2: Felicity will instantly visualize its lead star, Carry Russell when
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  Speaker 2: they think about the series, with her million watt smile
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  Speaker 2: and the trademark golden curls she wore at the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's but it simply Carrie is Felicity, and there's no
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  Speaker 2: separating the character from the star. But jja Abrams created
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  Speaker 2: this show just revealed to Variety when they were developing
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  Speaker 2: the story, the Felicity they had in their minds couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been further from Carrie. He says. The character that
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  Speaker 2: I wrote was the wallflower who had never had a boyfriend,
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  Speaker 2: who sheepishly approached a boy to ask to sign her yearbook.
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  Speaker 2: That's not Carrie Russell. Carey walked into the audition and
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  Speaker 2: she was beautiful, the hair, the smile, of the eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Not someone who fits the job description. But she was
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  Speaker 2: genuine and funny and whenever she would get emotional, literally
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  Speaker 2: I would cry. So she got the part despite not
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  Speaker 2: matching our vision, because she was so funny and so truthful.
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  Speaker 2: JJ Abram's there and the casting of Carry Russell on Felicity,
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  Speaker 2: which launched her career. Season two of her current show,
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  Speaker 2: The Diplomat is on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.