Happy Birthday: Rene Russo

Rene Russo

Born: February 17, 1954 in Burbank, California, USA

Married to:
Dan Gilroy (14 March 1992 – present) (1 child)

That’s a really good question – what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world. It’s really hard for him to be in the world, because if his head isn’t in a script, I guess to write what he does, he has to sort of twist the world a little bit and live in a fantasy. And I think he doesn’t live in reality – in my reality, let’s put it that way. He’s much more “Everything’s fine fine fine and everything’s good good good,” and I’m like, “What, are you nuts? Everything’s rotten and sucks.”
Beauty and youth can stay inside, but it doesn’t outside.

[regarding the table read for The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)] “I walked in the door and there was June Foray. She did the original voice of Natasha and I thought, ‘Oh good, they have June here to make me look like an idiot.’ I asked June if she could read a couple of lines for me, and she did, she was so gracious. So I got the accent down, the Russian accent, for which I lowered my voice.”

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