Keri Russell On 'Creative' Celebrity Baby Names
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The year 2008 yielded an abundance of unusual celebrity baby names, and actress Keri Russell has a few theories why. The 32-year-old actress muses to CNN that the “unusual life” led by entertainers is most likely to thank. “I mean…they tend to be creative people, and maybe people are more creative with their names, too,” she explains. “Or [they] feel like they don’t have to be so confined to tradition because it’s such an nontraditional line of work.” That she and husband Shane Deary chose an unusual name for their own son — 18 ½-month-old River Russell — may not make sense to everyone, but it makes sense for their family. Adds Keri,
“It was a name we like, and my husband grew up on Martha’s Vineyard. [There were] a lot of sort of unusual hippie names, so we thought we could get away with it.”
Her new film Bedtime Stories — co-starring Adam Sandler — involves bedtime stories that come true, but at home Keri says that bedtime stories with River rarely make it to ‘The End!’ “He’s too squiggly and little for that right now,” she says. “We do read [him] books, and he has his favorites, but right now it’s very much like ‘Read this one, read this one.’”
“We read the first two pages, then he’s like, ‘And now this one.’ I’m like, ‘But we haven’t gotten to the best part! Let me finish.’ It’s a lot of that.”
Bedtime Stories is in theaters now.
Source: CNN
