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But I think it helps that it is a very relationship centered show,\" Russell said.\u003cbr/\u003e              So how does their relationship at home affect what happens on set?\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Probably for the crew very badly,\" Russell smiled.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Well on the days we argue, yeah,\" added Rhys. \"They bring in knives so they can cut the tension. You know, it's - there are pros and cons and one will inform the other, on and off set, you know, there are days it lends itself perfectly, and then there are days when it does and it doesn't.\".\u003cbr/\u003e              When the show premiered in 2013, some critics felt its story about KGB operatives in early 1980s America seemed irrelevant. After all, the Cold War was over, and relations between the United States and Russia had thawed. \u003cbr/\u003e              Now, the show is attracting attention for its uncanny prescience, in light of the United States' complicated relationship with Russia in the Trump era.\u003cbr/\u003e              Rhys wants to thank the audience, as well as the critics, who stuck with the show from the beginning.\u003cbr/\u003e              in the very beginning, we were fortunate with the audience that jumped on and went, 'this is strange,' because at that time, the press in Season One was saying, 'Is Russian interests in the U.S. relevant anymore?' So, to those who stuck with us from Season One, we thank you to those members of the press who said that, we thank you.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Now, relations between Moscow and the West are on the brink of diplomatic crisis. \u003cbr/\u003e              Last week, a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned in the U.K. with a nerve agent known only to have been manufactured by Russia. That attack resembles an incident that happened on the show. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We say things like that's so Season One,\" laughed Rhys.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Now, we're asking who's copying who, you know, whether or not… Because we, we, umm - we took a story line from a KGB poisoning on the London Bridge for Season One, and now they are just copying us, which I find mundane.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Executive producer, Graham Yost said the Russians have always been masters of espionage.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So, you asked about, you know, reflections of how things are today, and the one reality that you find out about the KGB then, and back for hundreds of years, is they're really, really good at this.  They know how to do spying pretty much better than anyone else in the world, and that's something we all have to always be thinking about.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              As the show enters its final season and in events in the real world seems to resemble its plotlines, creator Joe Weisberg said it's just history repeating itself.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We would like to pretend that we are geniuses who could tell the future, but the fact is a lot of this show is just based on research about the past. So, all the storylines that seem so prescient are really about things that happened during the Soviet period, and it's just it's just happening again. It's horrible and sad and hard to see, but it's just the past repeating itself,\" Weisberg said.\u003cbr/\u003e              The sixth and final season of \"The Americans\" premieres on FX on March 28.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              New York, 16 March 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Tilt down on Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Various of Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys posing for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys talking to reporters\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Keri Russell/Actress, on making your characters likable to the audience:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I think that the start of this story is really a relationship story, so I think that's what we always focus on and the extra stuff we just believe we're doing it, because that's where we're from and that's... But I think it helps that it is a very relationship-centered show.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Medium of Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys talking to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Keri Russell/Actress and Matthew Rhys/Actor, on how off-screen relationship affects what happens on set:\u003cbr/\u003e              Russell: \"Probably for the crew very badly...\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Rhys: \"Well on the days we argue, yeah. They cut the… they bring in knives so they can cut the tension. You know, it's - there are pros and cons and one will inform the other, on and off set, you know, there are days it lends itself perfectly, and then there are days when it does and it doesn't.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              (Reporter: \"Do you agree?\")\u003cbr/\u003e              Russell: \"I agree. Pros and Cons.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              7. Medium of Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys talking to reporters\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Keri Russell/Actress and Matthew Rhys/Actor on the show being timelier than ever:\u003cbr/\u003e              Rhys: \"I think there are small, small elements that have lent themselves, but I think we were… You know, in the very beginning, we were fortunate with the audience that jumped on and went, 'this is strange,' because at that time, the press in Season One was saying, 'Is Russian interests in the U.S. relevant anymore?' So, to those who stuck with us from Season One, we thank you to those members of the press who said that, we thank you.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Russell: \"Yeah.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Medium wide of Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys talking to reporters\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Keri Russell/Actress and Matthew Rhys/Actor on the recent nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy in the U.K.:\u003cbr/\u003e              Rhys: \"We say things like, 'that's so Season One.'\"\u003cbr/\u003e              (Russell tries not to giggle)\u003cbr/\u003e              Russell: \"It's pretty wild.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Rhys: \"Now, we're asking who's copying who, you know, whether or not… Because we, we, umm - we took a story line from a KGB poisoning on the London Bridge for Season One, and now they are just copying us, which I find mundane.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Wide of Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys talking to reporters\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Medium of Holly Taylor being captured on iPhone\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Medium of Noah Emmerich posing for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Medium of Margo Martindale talking to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Medium of Graham Yost posing for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) Graham Yost/Executive Producer, on Russian spying:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So, you asked about, you know, reflections of how things are today, and the one reality that you find out about the KGB then, and back for hundreds of years, is they're really, really good at this.  They know how to do spying pretty much better than anyone else in the world, and that's something we all have to always be thinking about.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Medium of Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields posing for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e              18. 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