WHEN AMC’s “Mad Men” fans approach the actress January Jones on the street, it is w/ furrowed brows and lowered, sympathetic voices: “Poor Betty. Is she going to be O.K.?” they ask Ms. Jones, who portrays a golden-haired, beautiful young mother of two who spends her days craving attention from Don Draper (Jon Hamm), her powerful yet emotionally withholding advertising executive husband.
If Don is a sorry excuse for a sounding board, perhaps it’s because he can often be found visiting his free-spirit mistress or wooing a female client of the agency. “People don’t feel so sad for Don,” Mr. Hamm said, reporting that viewer comments generally fall into a single category: “What is wrong with you?
When “Mad Men” was 1st shown in July, “Mad Men” appeared to be about Vaselined hair, crisp suits and the glamorous world of Madison Avenue advertising in the early 1960s. Lately, though, “Mad Men”series has become a grim exploration of what it meant to be locked into a traditional, unhappy marriage at a time when divorce still carried a stigma. It’s no shock that stay-at-home, casserole-cooking, Bryn Mawr-educated Betty is miserable; she’s lonely, unfulfilled and having so much trouble processing the grief over the recent loss of her mother that she suffers from mysterious hand tremors...
...Earlier in the day, Mr. Hamm said, he and Ms. Westfeldt had been walking their dog while discussing the current spate of dark, probing shows like “Mad Men,” which has been renewed for a second season, and HBO's “Tell Me You Love Me.”“I was saying that it’s sort of downer television,” Mr. Hamm said, “but I find it helpful and tremendously engaging.’”
Kiernan Shipka, the 7-year-old actress who plays the Drapers’ daughter, poked her head in to say hello. Then Mr. Hamm, Ms. Jones and Ms. Shipka headed off to rehearse a kitchen scene for the season finale. Later, when Mr. Hamm returned, the world of the dysfunctional Drapers was wedged in his thoughts: “Sometimes I look at these kids and think that when they’re 30 and in therapy, they’re going to be asking about their father and why he was never home.”For more detail please visit...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/arts/television/30roch.html?pagewanted=print
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January Jones is an American actress.
January Jones most famous for her role as Betty Draper on the television show Mad Men...