-Our first guest tonight is a Golden Globe-winning actress
you know from shows like "Felicity" and "The Americans."
She stars in "Antlers," which is in theaters now.
Let's take a look.
-He's not dead.
-Yeah, he is, Lucas.
My brother, Paul --
he found him in your house.
-No.
That was my old dad,
when he was sick and mean.
My new dad's related,
but Aiden doesn't understand, and he needs me.
I just have to feed him, and he'll love me.
-Please welcome back to the show Keri Russell!
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-Hi! -Hello! Welcome back!
It's so good to see you in person.
-I know.
-I like a horror movie where a scene takes place by fireside.
-It's very similar to how you parent, right?
You're like, "Give me food, and then you'll stay alive."
-Yep. I also -- Every hard conversation
I have with my kids, I'm like, "You sit on the couch.
I'll start a fire.
One side of my face will be very ghostly lit."
-It always works better that way, always.
-This film takes place in Oregon,
and it is sort of a ravished community --
a ravaged community, I should say.
-I think I'm ravishing. -You're ravishing.
-Ravishing.
-You're a ravishing woman in a ravaged community.
But it's got a supernatural element.
It's a scary film. Have you seen it in the theater?
That's one of the exciting things about people
being to be to get in theaters again is scary movies.
-It is, and I'm really glad they held it,
because, you know, we actually made this three years ago,
or about that, and then, as we all know,
the world stopped working for a moment.
And so they saved it, and then we could see it in theaters,
which, by the way, you know, this definitely should be
seen in theaters, and it's so beautiful and haunting.
But, yes, I have these girl pals
that my kids call "Moms Gone Wild."
-Your kids call you "Moms Gone Wild"?
Wow. -Correct.
-These mom friends of mine.
And we took -- The Moms Gone Wild friends
took our teenagers to go see this movie last Saturday,
and it was scarier than I thought.
-The movie -- That's good.
-I hadn't seen it in three years,
and I was like, "Ooh!
This is -- Whoa! This is -- Wow!
This a lot scarier than I thought."
And I kept looking over at the teenagers,
and they were like, "It's fine."
-Really? -Yeah.
-So the Moms Gone Wild were scared,
but the teenagers were fine.
-Moms Gone Wild -- You know,
when you see a scary movie,
they always show scary-movie trailers.
-Yep.
-So, there was a "Scream" trailer at first,
and there's this very scary teaser to it.
And the two of us verbally screamed and bonked our heads.
We went "Aah!" and screamed and bonked our heads,
and the teenagers looked at us like, "Hey."
Like, "Get out of here."
-Your kids are so spread out -- 14, 9, and 5.
-9 and 5, yep.
-So, what is Halloween like when you have kids that are, like,
so different in the eras of life there?
-I'm so glad I survived. -Yeah.
-It's exhausting.
Does anyone else have exhausting Halloweens?
-Yeah.
-I mean, I know it's fun, and I grew up with a mom
who loved Halloween and, like, is so into all of that.
It's exhausting.
You know, the teenagers are out.
You're trying to make sure they're safe.
The 9-year-old, you're like,
"Got to get them with their friends,
make sure no one gets kidnapped."
I mean, it's, like, people everywhere --
-And did you -- Did she get kidnapped or did you make it?
-Not this year.
-Okay. Congrats.
-And then the 5-year-old is Darth Vader,
and he's, like, running around.
It was craziness. I'm so tired from Halloween.
-I -- We are trying to --
You know, 'cause 5 is our oldest, and 5 is your youngest.
So, we're trying to, like, teach him that, like,
eating the candy isn't actually part of this.
-Oh, no.
-Yeah, you leave the candy on offer
for the Halloween Santa.
-You know what?
That's so funny, because that's kind of what Matthew does.
-Yeah.
-And, actually, he went out last night,
and I had all three kids home alone.
And Matthew was getting ready to go,
and I was like, "You guys, if you are good,
if you are good, I will let you guys have a piece of candy
after dinner."
And they were like, "Whoo!"
And I was like, "Keep it down! Keep it down!
If Matt hears, he's going to be really bummed."
So, he left, and they were like, "Candy!"
-Yeah. It's not fair what they do us with the candy.
-It's not fair.
It's really not fair, but it's amazing.
-Your husband, Matthew Rhys, who --
You guys met on "The Americans."
-It's true.
-And he -- A lot of people did stuff during the pandemic.
Was this a -- He bought a boat.
-On eBay. -On eBay.
-Yeah.
-Which is, like -- I would imagine most boaters
would say that's not the place to buy it.
-I'd say that's not the place to buy a boat.
-And he had to do a lot of work on it.
-Especially for someone who had never had a boat before.
-Okay.
-He was like, "Oh, this is a good idea."
Like, probably after two glasses of wine
on the couch late at night.
-Yeah. The weird thing is that he --
I mean, 'cause, again, like,
it's not like eBay is like,
"Hey, you want to look at a boat?"
Like, you have to go on eBay and, like, enter "boat."
-Oh, he deep-dived it. -Yeah.
-He deep-dived it, yeah.
-And he bought a boat and he had to do a ton of work.
Like, this is him, like, doing work on his boat.
But, like, there was an article in
"The New York Times" about this.
-There was. -This is a successful boat.
It's the same kind of boat that Ernest Hemingway had, correct?
-Correct. There's only four left in the world of that class.
-Wow. And here it is.
Look at the job he did on this boat.
-I know. It's really good. Him and his captain, Kelli.
And the thing that sold it was that the name
actually on the boat.
Its given name was Rarebit.
-Oh, it pre-existed. -It pre-existed.
You don't -- It's very bad luck to change the name of a boat.
-Really?
-And when he heard it was Rarebit,
there's this food thing called Welsh rarebit.
And he was like, "I have to have this boat."
-Yeah, because he's a Welshman. -Yeah.
-He's proud Welshman. -And I was like, "Good luck."
-Now, has he won you over?
Because this now seems like a lovely way to, like,
go around --
-It is a lovely way.
And it's beautiful.
It's this beautiful antique wooden thing
that we want to do "Day Drinking" with you.
-Yeah, I would love to go day-drinking on the sea.
-Yes, right?
-Yeah, 'cause that's where -- The only thing that --
When I've gone day-drinking, the only thing
I've wished was also happening was just being slowly jostled.
Just a light, slow jostling.
-A lot of our dreams can come true together.
-Well, I'm going to hold you guys to this.
-You will. -It is always great to see you.
Congratulations so much on the film.
You guys, that's Keri Russell.
"Antlers" is in theaters now.