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For Keri Russell, the intrigue of ‘The Diplomat’ is its messy humanity

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Keri Russell lost her voice.

The actress whispered a hoarse apology after cancelling an interview recently, unable to muster much more lest she worsens her condition.

She calls days later, sounding better and joking about all the time she spent promoting her new Netflix series, The Diplomat, while barely speaking.

It was like The Little Mermaid, she says. “You’re going to show up, but you’ll be silent.”

One could argue the mishap is straight out of The Diplomat itself, in which Russell’s title character, while competent at her work in the Foreign Service, is always a bit out

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