Come and Get It! 10 Surprising Things to Know About Mad Men
21.05.12
Wanted to know why Bertram Cooper doesn't wear shoes in the office. Asked how he gets into character, Morse said he just takes Weiner's direction. "'Do what the f--- I say!'" the actor joked. Weiner later explained that Morse once kept demanding deeper answers as to where Cooper's shoe thing came from, unsatisfied to learn that Cooper's interest in Eastern cultures was just one of the character's quirks.
6. Remember when Don tried keeping a diary? His was based on two real ones. The journal was inspired by a real one written in 1965 by the father of one of Weiner's friends who had been going through issues similar to what Don faced last season. "Some of it is from my own journal, and some of it is from that man's journal," Weiner said. "That was as close to therapy as Don's going to get."
7. Rich Sommer was hungover when Harry did his best Roger Sterling and tried to pick up a girl in last season's finale. According to Sommer, who agreed
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer