Tale of Madness: Nylon Guys Spring 2008 - Interview mit Vincent Part 2:

Mad Men is Kartheiser's break-through role after a career that began in the childhood. "I left home when I was nine years old, " he says, on a touring theatrical production, ingraining him with a lingering sense of life as a professional intinerant. I think what we do as a young person stays with you - I've been moving from city to city with a suitcase. He's now lived in Hollywood for 11 years, and he's calling me during what should have been a break until Mad Men begun shooting it's second season in February - an expectation upended when the writer's strike put in, like most Hollywood productions, on indefinite hold. I ask if he feels tethered to Los Angeles, because of Mad Men's success. "I don't feel stuck anywhere. I was on he plane today with this person who said if they just ad more money, they'd go and do this and that and I was like `I know people who have millions of dollars who never do what they want to do,´ and people who go to Africa with $200 in their pocket, " he says. "If you're stuck, you're just a stuck person." His seatmate must have love the plane-side therapy session, I say. "I aggravate the world, he says. "And I aggravate myself. But you can say a lot of things if you say them with a smile."
That's a philosophy Kartheiser seems to have shared with his character, as his Pete Cambell manages to smile - or at least grimace - his way through his seduction of the secretary and pimping his wife to her ex-bayfriend to advance his literature career. But there is plenty of sinning to go around in the show, where infidelity is neither the norm nor the expectation, and one woman's brainstorm during a focus group session is likened by a male character to "watching a dog play piano." Kartheiser is confident, anyway, that such moral-complicated conditions will provide sufficient fodder for Mad Men's second season, whenever it's made. (mehr )

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