{"id":492432,"date":"2026-06-24T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/492432\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:43:10","slug":"inside-matthew-rhys-keri-russells-private-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/492432\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell&#8217;s Private Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turned out, however, that she and Rhys already knew each other, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/843559\/matthew-rhys-and-keri-russell-discuss-their-real-life-romance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">met after a kickball-and-beer-fueled party<\/a> in L.A.\u00a0more than a decade prior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I very drunkenly asked her for her number when she was a young, single, slip of a thing,&#8221; Rhys shared during a 2017 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, &#8220;so I sort of knew then when I was 26.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Years later, according to Russell, &#8220;We did all the readings together and all the things, and after a heavy dose of fight training, all sweaty, at lunch, you said, &#8216;Oh, you know we&#8217;ve met before. I said, &#8216;No we haven&#8217;t,&#8217; and you said, &#8216;Yeah, we&#8217;ve met before, like 10 years ago at kickball.&#8217; As soon as he said that, I knew exactly what [he meant] and I opened my eyes, like, &#8216;Oh! Of course I remember that.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Diplomat star cracked, &#8220;You were that buffoon that wouldn&#8217;t stop calling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It turned out, however, that she and Rhys already knew each other, having met after a kickball-and-beer-fueled party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-492432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}