Cocaine Bear’s Keri Russell On The Absurdity Of Acting Against A Bear On Cocaine [Exclusive Interview]

I received to see it “Cocaine Bear” yesterday, and it was all the things I anticipated, which is the very best praise I can provide.

Okay, good. It is nuts.

It is nuts.

However it’s enjoyable.

Sure and sure. So when this script got here throughout your desk, at what level whenever you had been studying it had been you want, “I’ve to do that.” Was there a particular line or scene?

Effectively, Liz [“Cocaine Bear” director Elizabeth Banks] and I had been on the telephone speaking a few fully totally different venture. And we’re getting that going, after which I believe it was the following day, she known as me and stated, “Do you wish to learn this factor that I am directing, this loopy film?” I used to be like, “You are doing what?”

It was simply on the top of Covid and all the things was so intense on this planet, and it simply appeared that loopy. I learn it and I used to be laughing so arduous. It was so ridiculous and silly and wild. After which Margo Martindale [Russell’s co-star on FX’s “The Americans”] texted me and stated, “Are you doing this movie?” And I used to be like, “Are you doing this movie?” And I used to be like, “Now I am undoubtedly doing this movie.”

As a result of the considered Margo doing that, that [Elizabeth Banks] had forged Margo, I used to be like, “Oh, I see what she’s seeing.” And I may perceive the tone of the place she was going with it. And I am so glad, as a result of Jesse [Tyler Ferguson] and Margo [Martindale] and I in that forest, laughing our asses off, having a lot silly enjoyable, it simply was such a aid and an escape from all of the depth of all the things in the true world.

They screened it, and once more it was Jesse and Margo and I in some theater simply howling. It actually goes there. It does not shrink back from issues. And we had been screaming and hitting one another and laughing our heads off. And I do not know, it was similar to a complete escape, a complete romp, ridiculous, enjoyable escape.