![]() ![]() That makes it so much harder to audition. She is of Czech, Danish, English, Welsh, and German ancestry. She is the daughter of Karen Sue (née Cox), a sporting goods store manager, and Marvin Roger Jones, a gym teacher and fitness director. Kartheiser: You guys are evil! Seriously, I was thinking, Isn’t there some good actor they could get to try out? I was very nervous because I loved the script. January Jones was born on Januin Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Slattery: You mean “fix that haircut.” It looked like a hat. Vincent Kartheiser: On the day I auditioned, I thought I nailed it because Matt asked me if I would be willing to change my hair. Photo credit: Frank Ockenfels/AMCĬhristina Hendricks: When I saw my audition played back, I could tell that I was that girl who hadn’t booked an acting job in a year. ![]() Jones is shown here with Christopher Stanley, who plays her second husband, and, from left, Mason Vale Cotton, Evan and Ryder Londo, Kiernan Shipka, who play her children. “People come up to me, and they straight up say they don’t like me,” she says. A broken home: Fans took it personally when Betty (January Jones) split with Don Draper. On May 17, 2015, the landmark AMC drama from creator Matthew. It's been six years since we said goodbye to the '60s. I feel protected enough and safe enough to give everything I can every day. Watch: Happy Birthday Jon Hamm: E News Rewind. Maybe the one negative thing in my life is that I’ve become more guarded as a person. January Jones: Mad Men has been this stable background for everything else that has happened personally, and I’ve felt like I have a family around me to support me. I feel like I’m 100 years older than when we started. John Slattery: You watch yourself on the audition tape and flashback, “Oh my God, I started out and my kid was six years old, and he’s in high school now.” You change, especially physically. You can’t be seven years on the planet and not change. Jon Hamm: All of us have gone through seven years of life and when you add on top of that the experience of being on a show that has become as popular as this one has, it just amplifies everything. JEANNE WOLF: I just learned that Executive Producer Matt Weiner recently held a cast party at which he showed your original audition tapes. To find out more, The Saturday Evening Post invited key members of the cast along with series creator, Matt Weiner, and our West Coast editor, Jeanne Wolf, to an intimate get together of the Mad Men team. Whatever angst they portray on screen, they insist they are really sort of like members of a winning football team crossed with a loving family. He forges ahead driven by the mantra “You’re born alone, and you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts.” Hamm admits that six seasons of exploring a fascinating, often enigmatic and frequently unpredictable character has left its mark on him as well as every member of the cast. Portrayed by the impossibly handsome Jon Hamm, Draper is the linchpin of every episode. Don Draper is at the heart of this intoxicating mix of drama and comedy exploring the human condition as it feeds on success and descends into self-destructive failure. ![]()
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