Kerri Russell On 'The Diplomat'/ Remembering Dorothy Allison

Fresh Air

NPR

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.4 • 34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Kerri Russell stars in the Netflix political drama The Diplomat as a foreign service officer tapped to become the American ambassador to the UK. Russell also starred in the series Felicity and The Americans. She spoke with us last year about these characters and getting her start on The All New Mickey Mouse Club as a kid.

Also, we remember author Dorothy Allison, who died this week at age 75. Her critically acclaimed 1992 novel Bastard out of Carolina was based on her own childhood experience of being physically and sexually abused. We listen back to Terry's interview with Allison about the book and her life.

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Support for this podcast and the following message come from Dignity Memorial.
0:04.8	When your celebration of life is prepaid today, your family is protected tomorrow.
0:09.8	Planning ahead is truly one of the best gifts you can give your family.
0:13.6	For additional information, visit DignityMemorial.com.
0:17.5	This is Fresh Air. I'm Sambrigger.
0:20.1	If you like to distract yourself from real-world crises with the fictional kind,
0:24.6	then you can now watch season two of the Netflix series The Diplomat. Carrie Russell stars as Kate Weiler,
0:31.1	a career foreign service officer with an excellent reputation for handling international crises,
0:37.1	often behind the scenes. Her husband Hal,
0:40.3	played by Rufus Sewell, is also a diplomat and former ambassador. Let's hear a clip from the
0:45.9	current season, but first a little exposition. Last season, Kate Weiler and her British counterparts
0:52.3	had been investigating the terrorist attack of a
0:55.3	British aircraft carrier. She had been told that a Russian mercenary named Lenkoff was behind the attack,
1:02.2	but that it was secretly planned by someone within the British government, and she suspects
1:06.8	the prime minister. Last season ended with a cliffhanger. A car bomb went off, severely
1:12.7	injuring Kate's husband, her deputy Stewart, and another staff member named Ronnie. In this scene,
1:18.8	Kate meets the embassy's lead CIA agent, Idra Park, at the hospital and fills her in on the
1:24.2	investigation. Park is played by Ali On. Lankov put together the attack on the
1:29.1	carrier, but the Kremlin did not hire him. I think the prime minister did. Of this country.
1:36.8	Slam. They are British police. This is a British hospital. Our people are not safe here.
1:42.2	Kate, you think the British prime minister ordered a strike on his own warship, which may or may not be connected to the bomb that just went off in his own city?
1:51.6	You think he ordered that, too?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.