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'Mad Men' Elisabeth Moss: 'Peggy loves Don Draper'


Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss has offered her thoughts on her character Peggy Olson's complex relationship with Don Draper (Jon Hamm).

Season six of Mad Men saw Peggy at odds with former mentor Don, and involved in doomed relationships with fringe journalist Abe and her boss Ted Chaough.

Mad Men S06E13: Ted Chaough (Kevin Rahm) and Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss)

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In an interview with Vulture, Moss discussed Peggy being one of the few employees who doesn't know the truth about Draper's secretive past.

"I think she loves him. He's family," Moss commented. "And she already knows some pretty harsh things. He's thrown money at her! He's done things to her that are far worse than what she would find out about his past.

"Throwing money at her face, giving accounts away, threatening to tell the client that she's having an affair with her married boss, and then giving away credit for her creative idea - that's far worse than anything he could ever [reveal]. You know how important that is to Peggy."

The actress continued: "There's nothing more important than ownership over her creative ideas because that's all she has as a woman in that workplace. All she has are her ideas, and he takes that away from her. That's why she calls him a monster.

"But that doesn't mean that there isn't still love there. I will say this about their relationship: It's very special and it's very common in the sense that it's very familial between the two of them.

"It's like brother/sister, father/daughter, best friends, boss/employee. It's everything but romantic. You love your father even if you hate him sometimes. You'll call your brother a monster, but there's love there that will never change. Frankly, finding out about his past, I don't know if that's something that would break the bank."

Mad Men S06E13: Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss)

© AMC / Jamie Trueblood

Peggy (Elisabeth Moss)

Moss was also asked about her hopes for Peggy, as Mad Men nears its seventh and final season.

"I'm not gonna say anything. I do have an idea of what I want, but I'm not going to jeopardize it by talking about it," she said.

"It's one of those things where, if I talk about what I want to happen, it won't happen because if it gets out there and becomes a story, or becomes big in the press - 'Oooh, Elisabeth Moss thinks this is going to happen!' - then Matt (Weiner, the show's creator) won't do it."


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