GOSSIP & RUMORS: Keri Russell admits she’s ‘still not sure’ she wants to be an actress but ‘really loves’ her job right now

Keri Russell creates magic on ordinary days.

But that doesn’t mean she’s too tethered to the job title actress. In fact, Russell, 49, recently revealed how she views her career in Hollywood.

“I didn’t grow up desperate to be an actress,” the star said while at the Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actress Roundtable. “I’m still not sure I want to be. But I really love my job right now. There are a lot of things that are still embarrassing to me. I’m not a performer at ease.”

However, when it comes to Russell’s partner of nine years, Matthew Rhys, he’s all in for his craft.

“[With] Matthew, for instance, I’ll say, ‘What are you doing this week?’ And he’ll go, ‘Oh, I’m just going to do this play reading. I haven’t done a German or Russian accent in a while and I just want to try it out,’” she revealed. “That’s my nightmare! I would f–king die. I don’t want to f–king do that in front of strangers! For me, there’s a real push-pull. I still have to overcome the obstacle of being nervous, but this version of TV that we’re in works for me.”

Russell rose to fame while starring in the drama series “Felicity” from 1998 to 2002.

On the show, the actress played Felicity Porter, who discovers what life is really like after graduating high school, opposite Scott Speedman and Scott Foley. When the series wrapped, Russell left Los Angeles for New York and never moved back.

“I like my regular life,” she confessed at the roundtable. “It’s always such a funny thing when you see any big, super famous movie star. We’ve all worked with those people. I think [about how] they can’t even go outside. They don’t know what it’s like to be a real person. They don’t get their own coffee. They don’t do their own laundry.”

“How do they play a real person? I don’t want to talk shit too much about acting. I am completely married to the adventure of it, and that’s what I’m in it for,” Russell added. “I love to [shoot] in some strange city — it could be Paris or some little Southern town — and learn the city, meet new people and find my little thing.”

“Felicity” went on to win her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 1999.

Over the years, the “Waitress” alum has had a slew of iconic roles. From 2013 to 2018, Russell played KGB spy Elizabeth Jennings opposite Rhys, 50, as her on-screen husband and fellow KGB spy, Phillip on the FX series “The Americans.”

It was also on that drama, that her romance with the “Burnt” actor began.

Now Russell stars on Netflix’s “The Diplomat,” with its third season set to premiere in the fall.

Although she’s worked in a variety of genres over the years, the Hollywood vet can’t help but look back at typecasting that went on in the early days.

As she put it, “I went through a phase where it was just a nice pregnant mom. That was a Keri Russell type.”

Which felt like almost every other role for Russell.

“A lot of times,” she reiterated. “A lot.”