Holly Taylor talks family business in ‘The Americans’
In the show’s final season, she’s poised to carry on the family tradition as a next-generation KGB operative
Surveying the room, she admitted that playing Paige had made her more aware of people following her or watching her.
“Which gets confusing,” she said, “because I don’t know if they’re just being weird, or if they like the show.
Holly Taylor in ‘The Americans’.
I’ve asked repeatedly if there’s going to be a spin-off, if there’s going to be a movie after, and they’re like, ‘Nope, nope, nope,’ and they constantly shoot me down.”
“My dream was to be on Broadway,” Taylor said. “My parents didn’t even know what Broadway was.”
“They definitely thought school was more important, but at the same time, they didn’t want to ruin the opportunity for me,” Taylor said. “If my grades were to ever start slacking, it would’ve been like, ‘You’re out.’
Few answers were available, she added, because the producers are “very tight-lipped.”
“I like where I’m from, and I like the suburbs,” she said. “New Jersey gets so much hate” because of shows like Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives of New Jersey, she noted, “but it really has everything.
