Definitely the characters. It's funny because everyone walks in and you'll see them prior, like Jon will come in with his hair in front of his face or something and he's in a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. But when he walks out of the shoot, there is this elegance about him. Same with January or any one of the characters. It kind of throws you for a second seeing them out of character. Because when they're there, they're so used to being in costume and everything. It's like when the first cigarette is lit, everything kinda changes.
John Slattery will be sitting there joking around, he and Jon Hamm have this vaudevillian sense of humor and they're hysterical together. Then they'll go into who they are on the show, they'll just fall right into it. There is a gracefulness to it, down to their hand gestures. I think it's because they're such great actors and they've done so much that they have this ability to act from the top of their head down to their toes and out their fingers -- it's lucky for me. You'd think four seasons into a TV series -- and I've shot a lot of TV series -- these people are still the very same people I met the first year I came on. That's saying a lot because there is ego involved and celebrity involved and all that. They are all the exact same people I met the first day with the same grace and appreciation of what we're trying to achieve.
I'd have to be Robert Morse. I just walk around with my socks and smile at everybody and remind people of that reality of what's going on, but with a creative edge to it. I don't want to be the one up front. I'm definitely the one in the background. Be sure to check out more Mad Men at AMCtv.com as well as more of Frank's fabulous work on his his website.
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