We here at Yahoo! TV recently got a chance to mingle with many of the cast members of the acclaimed drama "Mad Men" (my absolute favorite show on television, as I've mentioned here before). And while we tried to score some juicy scoops on the upcoming Season 3, the actors knew better than to spill the beans (though they did confirm that viewers can expect plenty of serious surprises right out of the gate). Still, we weren't about to let them off the hook that easily, so we came up with a little challenge for the 10 "Mad Men" (and women) we chatted with. Since they are, after all, stars of a series centered around the advertising world, we asked them to sell us on why each of their characters is the most interesting on the show. Which members of the cast were suave smooth-talkers, and which ones just couldn't close the deal? Read on and decide for yourself.
Jon Hamm (Don Draper): I think that maybe enigmas are more interesting than anything else, so I'll just leave it at that.
Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell): He never wins. He actually does have ideas, but people don't listen to him because he comes from money, and apparently, to them, that means you can't have ideas. He's actually not any more dishonorable than anyone else, but he's judged purely on his background. I think a lot of people can relate to the idea that we have great ideas and we don't always get credit for them. Sometimes we get seen as something other than what we are.
Alison Brie (Trudy Campbell): My character is the most interesting on the show because she's the only person who has nothing to hide. She puts it all out there. I was just talking to one of the writers and she was saying how the show's so great because no one is who they say they are and they never really speak their true mind and then she said, "Except for Trudy I guess." She's the most honest and upfront and she's got the best style.
John Slattery (Roger Sterling): Funniest. Best-dressed. He has an interesting point of view that has evolved over time where he's saying, "You know what? Life isn't going to go on forever, and you might as well enjoy it while you're here." It's a fairly miserable bunch of bastards on that show, isn't it? And I think that Roger is maybe a notch less miserable than the rest of them.
Talia Balsam (Mona Sterling): I think all the women are interesting on the show because they're in a man's world. It's sort of what lies beneath. It's not something you see, but it might be something you wonder about -- what's really going on. I think some women can really relate to Mona. Other women say, "I love the show, but I'm so glad I'm not in that period of time."
Robert Morse (Bertram Cooper): Because I'm in and out so fast, people go, "Who was that mad man?" He's sort of the bare-bones knuckles of the company. He's the head of the whole thing. And he's a little eccentric.
Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove): They're all interesting. I'd be a terrible ad man for my character! This is a world where everyone is seeking happiness, some desperately and some discreetly, but my character seems to have found it or is content from day to day in not finding it, and that makes him unusual.
Christina Hendricks (Joan Holloway): Sass, style, confidence. That's what I'm gonna stick with. I love that she can be strong and opinionated and bossy and then she can be very feminine and girly and vulnerable all in one episode. I love that, and I thank [writer/producer] Matt Weiner for that.
Rich Sommer (Harry Crane): Harry noticed that this TV thing was kind of picking up, and even though he's kind of a screw-up in a lot of ways, he saw this thing and he put a name on it and he brought it to them, and luckily Roger was in a good mood that day and he granted him the TV department and made him head of it. I think it took a lot of guts for him to do it, and hopefully you're going to see, as TV becomes bigger and as time goes on, that Harry was on the ground floor of something pretty exciting.
Michael Gladis (Paul Kinsey): He's not. He's just not. He's interesting to me, but that doesn't mean he's the most interesting on the show. He's the most bohemian, how about that? He's representative of the oncoming counterculture.
Bryan Batt (Salvatore Romano): He has the most secrets. Sal has a lot hidden. Sal's closeted, he's married. He's swimming with the sharks and he's swimming the other way.
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