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I´ve to say after watching her appearance again, i like the dress more and more but i´m still a bit disappointed after last year fantastic Versace dress.
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Sag awards are tonight, so exited.
Is she going, i really hope so if yes, my prediction for tonight: color.
Is she going, i really hope so if yes, my prediction for tonight: color.
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'If I met Betty, I'd say, "Leave your husband!'": actress January Jones on her prim-and-proper alter ego
By Benji Wilson
Last updated at 5:31 PM on 22nd January 2010
She plays the lead character's trophy wife in the hit TV series Mad Men, but it’s January Jones who has emerged as the runaway star. Here the actress tells Benji Wilson how she cuts loose from her character
As the US TV show Mad Men begins its third series, it is finally dawning on people that the real star is not Jon Hamm’s Don Draper, the sharp-suited 1960s advertising executive, but his wife Betty, the prom dress-wearing suburban mother in meltdown.
That’s largely thanks to the beautiful January Jones, 32. Now one of the hottest stars in America, January grew up in a small town in South Dakota; she was spotted by a model scout while out shopping and moved to New York aged 18 (‘the second aeroplane I’d ever been on’). Roles in commercials took her into acting, and she moved to Los Angeles in the late 90s, where she still lives. Having dated actor Ashton Kutcher and rocker Josh Groban, she is now taking a break from A-list beaux and is currently seeing an unnamed lawyer from Oregon.
After nearly a decade of playing dumb-blonde bit parts in Hollywood – Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, anyone? – January won small roles in Love Actually and The Boat That Rocked, and has now finally found a role to call her own. We caught up with her on the set of Mad Men in downtown LA.
Let’s start with the name. You’re called January, you were born in January…
It’s a coincidence. It comes from a book called Once is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann, which, by the way, is not a good book. My mum read it, and she and my dad liked how January sounded with Jones. My sisters’ names are Jacey and Jina. Actually, I found out recently that there was an old singer named January Jones. Richard Curtis [who directed January in The Boat That Rocked and Love Actually] sent me a picture from London. It was a poster from an old theatre and it said, ‘Singing tonight: January Jones.’
How does January Jones transform into Betty Draper?
Well, wardrobe, hair and make-up help. At the beginning of the day I get my hair set in rollers, then I have my make-up done. After that I go back to hair and the stylist puts it in that 50s ’do. Then I go and get into the girdle, the bra with the pointy cups, the stockings, the heels, the big dress…and I look in the mirror and see Betty. My posture changes when I’m in those outfits – the girdle hugs your hips, so you have to stand up straight and take small steps. It’s a little bit of a cheat as an actor, really – just being dressed as Betty I’m already halfway there.
If you were transported back to 1962 and happened to bump into Betty, what advice would you give her?
Get out! Grow up! One of the things I find interesting about her is that she isn’t stupid. She’s had a college education; she’s travelled the world and seen a lot of things; she’s from a wealthy family in Philadelphia. So, even though she had pressure from her mother to marry, I don’t think we should pity her. At the end of the day, she made the decision to be a mother and a wife – she could have chosen another path. It’s her
fault that it’s not turning out for her. But there was a different mind-set back then. So, even if I did say to her, ‘leave your husband, there’s something else out there for you’, or, ‘keep going to therapy and be a better mum’, I don’t think she would have listened. It wouldn’t have seemed realistic to her.
At the end of the last series Betty had sex with a stranger in a bar. It seemed a little out of character for someone so judgmental.
I was upset by it, to be honest. It was one of the only times I went to Matthew Weiner [Mad Men’s creator] and said, ‘Why would she do this?’ He said that I shouldn’t over-think it. It was just her being human. It could have been the end of the world – everyone was talking about the Cuban missile crisis. Betty had found out she was pregnant, she was in the city by herself, the kids were with Don, and she was free. She had been shopping when she stopped at a bar, got a little drunk, and there was a man and she took advantage of it. She’s a sexual person. I think she was just horny. And isn’t that the motivation for men when they do it?
There’s a lot of drinking and smoking in Mad Men. Apparently Jon Hamm goes through about 74 herbal cigarettes an episode.
I go through more than that, probably. But, yeah, we smoke a lot. We’re not allowed nicotine on set, so they give us these awful herbal cigarettes. You can imagine, a lot of us are smoking in every take, and there are many takes, so you get a bit of a head rush. Maybe that’s why the show’s so good – we’re all high!
How has Betty’s style influenced your own?
I’m kind of a girlie girl, so I love the whole process of finding a dress, feeling glamorous, getting ready to go out. I’m a big fan of vintage fashion, but I can’t go and buy 50s- and 60s-style clothing now because people will think I’m going method!
What’s interesting to me is how Mad Men has influenced current fashion. People have been dedicating their collections to the show or using it as inspiration. A couple of years ago the silhouette was quite boxy, with shapeless dresses, but now we have a really great outline, where you see women’s waists, with belts and all that. I think that’s great because it’s a very feminine look. Best of all, in modern times we can edge it up and we don’t have to wear girdles and petticoats – thank God.
What could men today learn from men from the 60s?
I think it would be great if we could bring the gentleman back. I don’t think it’s necessarily men’s fault that they’ve lost that. Women over time have wanted to be independent. You know, ‘I don’t need you to open the door for me. I’m a strong, independent woman, and I can juggle children and a career and be fine,’ so men have backed off. But we always want what we can’t have, so now it’s like, ‘How come he’s not opening the door for me?’ But I think it would be nice if some manners were brought back. Apart from that, I don’t think men have changed that much.
So, on balance, would you have preferred to live then or now?
I’d go for now. I like having the opportunities. Growing up, when I said to my parents, ‘I want to be an astronaut, I want to be a marine biologist, I want to be an actress,’ they never said no. Betty’s mother was adamant that she become a wife and a mother. I don’t think I would have dealt with that very well. Go to college, meet a husband… I would’ve been one of those girls burning their bras.
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By Benji Wilson
Last updated at 5:31 PM on 22nd January 2010
She plays the lead character's trophy wife in the hit TV series Mad Men, but it’s January Jones who has emerged as the runaway star. Here the actress tells Benji Wilson how she cuts loose from her character
As the US TV show Mad Men begins its third series, it is finally dawning on people that the real star is not Jon Hamm’s Don Draper, the sharp-suited 1960s advertising executive, but his wife Betty, the prom dress-wearing suburban mother in meltdown.
That’s largely thanks to the beautiful January Jones, 32. Now one of the hottest stars in America, January grew up in a small town in South Dakota; she was spotted by a model scout while out shopping and moved to New York aged 18 (‘the second aeroplane I’d ever been on’). Roles in commercials took her into acting, and she moved to Los Angeles in the late 90s, where she still lives. Having dated actor Ashton Kutcher and rocker Josh Groban, she is now taking a break from A-list beaux and is currently seeing an unnamed lawyer from Oregon.
After nearly a decade of playing dumb-blonde bit parts in Hollywood – Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, anyone? – January won small roles in Love Actually and The Boat That Rocked, and has now finally found a role to call her own. We caught up with her on the set of Mad Men in downtown LA.
Let’s start with the name. You’re called January, you were born in January…
It’s a coincidence. It comes from a book called Once is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann, which, by the way, is not a good book. My mum read it, and she and my dad liked how January sounded with Jones. My sisters’ names are Jacey and Jina. Actually, I found out recently that there was an old singer named January Jones. Richard Curtis [who directed January in The Boat That Rocked and Love Actually] sent me a picture from London. It was a poster from an old theatre and it said, ‘Singing tonight: January Jones.’
How does January Jones transform into Betty Draper?
Well, wardrobe, hair and make-up help. At the beginning of the day I get my hair set in rollers, then I have my make-up done. After that I go back to hair and the stylist puts it in that 50s ’do. Then I go and get into the girdle, the bra with the pointy cups, the stockings, the heels, the big dress…and I look in the mirror and see Betty. My posture changes when I’m in those outfits – the girdle hugs your hips, so you have to stand up straight and take small steps. It’s a little bit of a cheat as an actor, really – just being dressed as Betty I’m already halfway there.
If you were transported back to 1962 and happened to bump into Betty, what advice would you give her?
Get out! Grow up! One of the things I find interesting about her is that she isn’t stupid. She’s had a college education; she’s travelled the world and seen a lot of things; she’s from a wealthy family in Philadelphia. So, even though she had pressure from her mother to marry, I don’t think we should pity her. At the end of the day, she made the decision to be a mother and a wife – she could have chosen another path. It’s her
fault that it’s not turning out for her. But there was a different mind-set back then. So, even if I did say to her, ‘leave your husband, there’s something else out there for you’, or, ‘keep going to therapy and be a better mum’, I don’t think she would have listened. It wouldn’t have seemed realistic to her.
At the end of the last series Betty had sex with a stranger in a bar. It seemed a little out of character for someone so judgmental.
I was upset by it, to be honest. It was one of the only times I went to Matthew Weiner [Mad Men’s creator] and said, ‘Why would she do this?’ He said that I shouldn’t over-think it. It was just her being human. It could have been the end of the world – everyone was talking about the Cuban missile crisis. Betty had found out she was pregnant, she was in the city by herself, the kids were with Don, and she was free. She had been shopping when she stopped at a bar, got a little drunk, and there was a man and she took advantage of it. She’s a sexual person. I think she was just horny. And isn’t that the motivation for men when they do it?
There’s a lot of drinking and smoking in Mad Men. Apparently Jon Hamm goes through about 74 herbal cigarettes an episode.
I go through more than that, probably. But, yeah, we smoke a lot. We’re not allowed nicotine on set, so they give us these awful herbal cigarettes. You can imagine, a lot of us are smoking in every take, and there are many takes, so you get a bit of a head rush. Maybe that’s why the show’s so good – we’re all high!
How has Betty’s style influenced your own?
I’m kind of a girlie girl, so I love the whole process of finding a dress, feeling glamorous, getting ready to go out. I’m a big fan of vintage fashion, but I can’t go and buy 50s- and 60s-style clothing now because people will think I’m going method!
What’s interesting to me is how Mad Men has influenced current fashion. People have been dedicating their collections to the show or using it as inspiration. A couple of years ago the silhouette was quite boxy, with shapeless dresses, but now we have a really great outline, where you see women’s waists, with belts and all that. I think that’s great because it’s a very feminine look. Best of all, in modern times we can edge it up and we don’t have to wear girdles and petticoats – thank God.
What could men today learn from men from the 60s?
I think it would be great if we could bring the gentleman back. I don’t think it’s necessarily men’s fault that they’ve lost that. Women over time have wanted to be independent. You know, ‘I don’t need you to open the door for me. I’m a strong, independent woman, and I can juggle children and a career and be fine,’ so men have backed off. But we always want what we can’t have, so now it’s like, ‘How come he’s not opening the door for me?’ But I think it would be nice if some manners were brought back. Apart from that, I don’t think men have changed that much.
So, on balance, would you have preferred to live then or now?
I’d go for now. I like having the opportunities. Growing up, when I said to my parents, ‘I want to be an astronaut, I want to be a marine biologist, I want to be an actress,’ they never said no. Betty’s mother was adamant that she become a wife and a mother. I don’t think I would have dealt with that very well. Go to college, meet a husband… I would’ve been one of those girls burning their bras.
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What a classic beauty!
And quite a lovely trench coat too, if I may add
And quite a lovely trench coat too, if I may add
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Does anyone know where this cast photo is from? I'd love to see it even slightly bigger.
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no show at the awards?
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when start the new season?
