It will come as no surprise to anyone that follows TV news that AMC's original show Mad Men was been nominated in a number of categories at the recent SAG and Golden Globe nomination announcements. The Hollywood Foreign Press honored the show with nominations in the categories of Best Series (Drama), Best Actor (Drama) John Hamm and Best Actress (Drama) January Jones. At The Screen Actors Guild nominations the show received nods for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series - John Hamm and Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.To celebrate the nominations E!Online sat down with show creator to ask about the recently finished season three and what the future looks like for Mad Men (SPOILER ALERT!!!).
Why did you choose to surprise us with the happy ending to season three?
The show has traditionally ended on a down note, and I wanted to end with a sense of liberation and humor. You have to go to the dark place to get there, but part of the joy that people felt at the ending was because we had earned it.
The end of season three seemed very contemporary—Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is a garage start-up!
That's what really happened though—there are many times in American history when these upheavals happened. And I felt that it was dishonest to say that a guy as talented as Don (Jon Hamm) would spend the creative revolution working at a place like Sterling Cooper. If you look at the history of the era, this is what would happen—the British were taking over companies at that time. Everything that we've got in the show is organic—I'm not defending it, I'm just saying that's where we got the idea. And they were working out of hotels! There's also stuff from Hollywood—the guys from Endeavor Agency left ICM in the middle of the night and took everything.
For more of this interview head over to E!Online here.
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