From Mad Men to tall-Rise,the actor has made her mark playing earnest, tightly wound women. So how come she’s known as the lesson clown?Elisabeth Moss gets people coming up to her all the time and asking how she’s doing. Is she unhappy Mad Men ended? Was it tough? The final day of shooting was, and she tells them. The producers saved all the scenes in the ending montage until the very discontinuance,so all the actors would be there that day. “It was like, ‘All right, and so and so is up’ and everyone would trudge to set and two more actors would wrap. You would be crying. Walk away. Weep some more. ‘All right,it’s Vinny [Kartheiser] now. Let’s recede,’ and everybody would recede. It happened six, or seven times that day. I left and I went home. I felt proud. We had wrapped. We were done. Then,nearly a year later, it starts airing and all of a sudden everyone is asking you about it again, and everyone is going through their own cathartic experience of it ending. You are going,Right. OK. I’ve got to acquire back there.’ I had done four movies since then, and I was doing a Broadway play at the time. They were going through their own grieving process. You are like, and ‘I know. It is abominable. It is unhappy. Right. It is really unhappy…’”Moss laughs at her problem – commiserating on behalf of people commiserating with her,even though she herself is not particularly unhappy – which seems born of her particular mixture of celebrity, breeziness and politeness. She has a tough enough time keeping the episodes of Mad Men straight in her head. “You could have asked me what we shot final week or what happened in the final episode. I don’t remember. I can’t tell you how many times I have been online to check the little plot summaries to remind myself. I swear to God.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com