Keri Russell not too long ago mirrored on her time as a baby star on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” and her principle about her exit from the present is something however magical.
Throughout an look on Wednesday’s episode of the podcast “Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson,” the “Diplomat” actor famous that she was on the long-running present from ages 15 to 17 — making her a couple of years older than a few of her different well-known former castmates, similar to Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and Britney Spears.
When host Jesse Tyler Ferguson requested her whether or not there was a “cut-off age” for forged members, Russell shared her suspicions {that a} double customary was at play.
“Yeah, it’s usually like, girls who look like they were sexually active,” needed to go away the present, she mentioned. “Which, probably, I was one of the firsts.”
“They were like, ‘She’s out!’” Russell added with amusing.
The “Felicity” star then identified that a few of her male castmates, against this, had stayed on the present till they have been about 19 whether or not they have been sexually lively or not.
“I was like, ‘Um, by the way, I had sex with that person, so I know that they’ve had sex,’” she mentioned, including that “pregnant Mouseketeers aren’t on the roster.”
Russell didn’t share additional particulars surrounding her exit from the sequence.
Representatives from Disney didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
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Russell appeared on “The All New Mickey Mouse Club,” also referred to as “MMC,” which aired from 1989 to 1996. The sequence was one of many a number of reboots of the unique “Mickey Mouse Club,” which debuted in 1955.
The “Americans” actor beforehand mirrored on her “Mickey Mouse Club” expertise throughout an interview with W Journal final yr.
She told the publication that she was the “least talented” out of the star-studded lineup.
“I was there at a time when there were a lot of famous kids there. And I say this completely truthfully: I was literally the least talented one there,” she said. “I’m not kidding. When I look at those kids, I’m like, why in the world did they pick me? Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Britney Spears. It was wild.”
Asked if she’d saved anything from her time on the show, Russell responded: “My sanity, my dignity. Not everyone got out alive.”
