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Keri Russell says cutoff for girls on ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ was when they looked 'like they were sexually active'


Keri Russell dishes on the age cutoff discrepancies between girls and boys on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' quipping, 'It's usually girls who look like they were sexually active, which probably I was one of the first. They're like, 'She's out.''

The Emmy-nominated star looked back at her time as a cast member of the All-New Mickey Mouse Club on Tuesday's episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Dinner's on Me podcast, where she quipped about the age cutoff discrepancies between girls and boys of the Disney variety show. The Mickey Mouse Club.Everett Russell believes she was cast because Disney sought out "normal" kid actors. "Some of my friends were going to a giant casting call for Disney at the downtown Denver Convention Center," she recalled.

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