Mad for Mad Men

I am SO excited for the 2 hour premier of Mad Men tonight I can hardly stand it. Mad Men has been my favorite show since the second it came out. I've seen every season multiple times (thanks to Netflix) and could watch them again because they are just that good. Rolling Stone Magazine did a behind the scenes and on the set piece showcasing some amaze-balls photos of what goes on during the filming of Mad Men. Take a look.

"If Rob Lowe had been cast in the part, it would have been different," says Jon Hamm, on the set in L.A. "There was no backstory with me."

(I love this photo with the apple computer. so cool!)

Aaron Staton and Rich Sommer, who play Ken Cosgrove and Harry Crane, on set in Los Angeles.

Hamm at work on set. 

"You have to be mentally acute for a significant period of time," 

he says, "and that becomes pretty draining."

Christina Hendricks, in full wardrobe, makes her way to the set in Los Angeles.

Elisabeth Moss, who plays the ambitious career girl Peggy Olsen, 

has a touch of pride about the fact that Mad Men's stars were relative unknowns before show creator Matthew Weiner put them to such brilliant use. "Matt always says that he basically hired a bunch of not-famous people,but people that had been working for a really long time."

The attention to detail, from conversational idiom to collar-point widths, is

 evident in every episode. The prop team blows you away. There are stacks of old 

Look magazines, genuine expense-report sheets and receipts from a business trip 

(hotel: $2.80; cab to restaurant: $1.12; dinner: $19.44).

Vincent Kartheiser, who plays the slimy Pete Campbell, 

learning his lines. 

"One of my few vanities," he says, 

"is going to a party and people not realizing I'm the 

person they saw in Mad Men."

Christina Hendricks films a scene in the board room on set in Los Angeles.

Robert Morse gets his character Bert Cooper's signature goatee applied on set in Los Angeles.

A view of the wardrobe room on the set of Mad Men in Los Angeles.

Actor and director John Slattery on set in Los Angeles.

Jon Hamm and the crew of Mad Men film a scene on set in Los Angeles.

Weiner starts each season by having lunch with Hamm: 

"It's a rare partnership. I always scribble something down that 

ends up in Episode 13."

"I need not to think about my character," 

says January Jones who plays Betty Draper, ex-wife of Don Draper. 

"Betty is so blissfully ignorant in certain ways, 

so I feel like I should be too."

"There are all sorts of challenges thrown at her," 

says Christina Hendricks of her character, sexy office manager Joan Holloway. "Horrific things. And she consistently pulls it together, cleans it up and moves forward. Sometimes she's walking through mud, but she does it."

Jon Hamm on the set of Mad Men in Los Angeles.

"I don't really have that much in comparison to the way Don 

holds himself. I'm not that guy. I don't really look like that," 

says Hamm.

"I don't need to relate to her," Jones says of Betty Draper, 

the show's most unsympathetic character. 

"The biggest obstacle for me is not to judge her."

"I fly very low on the radar," says Hamm.

 "Mark Twain said it: 'I'd rather say nothing and be thought an idiot than open my mouth and remove all doubt.' Another Missouri boy, Mark Twain. The petulant, shitty movie-star mentality - that burns out pretty quick."

I am also attaching a little teaser to get you in the mood for tonight!  

I can't wait to see what this season holds. I did read in an interview that there will only be two more seasons after this one. It will be a sad day when the show is over.

(Note: All photos and quotes were taken from  Rolling Stone Magazine. The video is from YouTube.)