Tale of Madness: Nylon Guys Spring 2008 - Interview mit Vincent Part 1:

EVERY NOW AND THEN A TV SHOW COMES ALONG THAT CHANGES WHAT A TV SHOW CAN BE. MAD MEN IS ONE OF THOSE. DIANE VADINO MEETS ONE OF ITS PRINCIPAL ACTORS, VINCENT KARTHEISER.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALEX HOERNER

"THIS IS ASTORY ABOUT AMERICA," SAYS VINCENT KARTHEISER, THE 28-YEAR-OLD, Minnesota-born actor who playes Pete Campell in AMC's stealth critical hit Mad Men, the legitimate heir to other literary-mined TV masterworks like The Wire and The Sopranos. Set in 1960, the show - about the complicated emotional lives of the titular advertising executives - is both a visually astounding and emotionally brutalizing experience. In 2008, the smug, conniving and tightly wound Campbell might read as a potential spree kille, but in 1960, he is a junior account executive, an up-and-coming go-better who seduces his boss's secretary the night before leaving for his own wedding - a heel, obviously, but perhaps not as much of one as the boss himself, Don Draper. Draper, as played by Jon Hamm, is as conflicted and ambitious as Tony Soprano and as willfully self-destructive - and cruel to his wife - as Jimmy McNulty. "We're all kind of these broken vessels sort of slouching though the world - behind every emotionally disconnected man there's a wailing baby waiting to be held, " Kartheiser says. "I don't know if it is a big deal, but it's truth." (mehr )

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