LOS ANGELES , California ( CNN ) -- Keri Russell , who stars in the new Adam Sandler comedy `` Bedtime Stories , '' says her own son is a little too young to enjoy a story before bedtime . Keri Russell , here with `` Bedtime Stories '' co-star Adam Sandler , has a young son . `` He 's too squiggly and little for that right now . He 's a year and a half , '' Russell tells CNN . She and husband Shane Deary have tried reading to their tot . `` We do read [ him ] books , and he has his favorites , but right now it 's very much like 'Read this one , read this one . ' And we read the first two pages , then he 's like , 'and now this one . ' I 'm like 'But we have n't gotten to the best part ! Let me finish . ' It 's a lot of that . '' Russell and Deary named their son River , which she acknowledges is unusual . `` It was a name we like , and my husband grew up on Martha 's Vineyard . It was a lot of sort of unusual hippie names , so we thought we could get away with it . '' Other unconventional celebrity baby names include Bronx Mowgli Wentz ( son of Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson ) , Apple Martin ( daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin ) and Naviyd Ely Raymond ( son of singer Usher and Tameka Raymond ) . Russell offers a reason why some entertainers choose distinctive names for their children : It 's the nature of their work . `` It 's an unusual life . I mean , so there tend to be creative people , and maybe people are more creative with their names , too , '' she says . `` Or [ they ] feel like they do n't have to be so confined to tradition because it 's such an untraditional line of work . ''
Keri Russell stars in new Adam Sandler film `` Bedtime Stories '' Russell has 1½-year-old child who 's `` too squiggly '' for own stories . Russell 's boy is named River ; she recognizes name is unusual .