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Q&A - Maggie Siff (Rachel Menken)
Maggie Siff plays Rachel Menken, the businesswoman who ends up not just a client of Sterling Cooper but a love interest for its Creative Director Don Draper. In AMC's exclusive interview, Siff describes her work for the show (and kissing Jon Hamm).
Q: How do you see Rachel?
A: She's a very modern woman. She's independent and self-reliant in a really unusual way. She's a truth-teller. She tells it like she sees it and is able to do that in the moment, which is an incredibly powerful thing for anyone to possess, much less a woman at that time.
Q: How was it for you to portray a character coping with so much anti-Semitism?
A: It was pretty interesting. One of the things that I really love about the character and love about the way Matt wrote her is that she really perceives and is able to process all the sleights that she has gotten along the way in her life. She's really adept at showing people the way they're behaving and making them squirm as opposed to squirming herself.
Q: What did you find most difficult about playing Rachel?
A: The biggest obstacle for me was that I think I was so desirous to have Rachel be this strong iconic woman that I had to constantly remind myself how vulnerable she was. I wanted to make her super-human, and I had to remind myself that she's not. And so in a way I had to keep bringing her back to myself.
Q: What was your favorite scene to film?
A: The scene on the rooftop in the third episode I really loved because it was my world. I loved landing on the roof, this place where she is exposed. But it was also incredibly epic and challenging.
Q: And you had to go through the horror of kissing Jon Hamm.
A: [Laughs]The worst! Let me tell you! No, I loved working with Jon and we had an extraordinary evening that night because it went on and on forever, we were shooting out there until three in the morning, and at the very end during his close-up these helicopters started circling and we had to call it a night. And it was so devastating because it was so intense.
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My favorite character of all. I loved Rachel. Miss Maggie, my hat is off to you for creating such an inspirational woman.
I loved Rachel. Her character was wondrous. Thank you.
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Such a wonderful character. So smart, put-together, strong, and outspoken; yet, also vulnerable and open to love. Don confided in her more than in anyone, and I believe he fell in love with her. She did the right thing by getting married and moving on with her life - she is such a good and beautiful woman; we wouldn't want to mess that up. As Admad says, she is inspirational and I loved her too. Thank you.
She was my favorite temporary character too. So smart and kind. Compassionate. I'm sure she was in love with Don. Probably the only one of his "women" to really fall for him. And he for her. But she did do the right thing to move on...She is who I would want to be if I were living in the early 60's. Such an amazing and well written character. Love, Love, Love this show!
She was my favorite temporary character too. So smart and kind. Compassionate. I'm sure she was in love with Don. Probably the only one of his "women" to really fall for him. And he for her. But she did do the right thing to move on...She is who I would want to be if I were living in the early 60's. Such an amazing and well written character. Love, Love, Love this show!
Maggie I know you are on Sons of Anarchy, and I know it is a hit, but please come back to Mad Men if you are given the opportunity.
You are a great actress, but you are way more suited to playing Rachel Menken than to playing the girlfriend of a biker.
Rachel Menken was the only love interest on MM that I ever thought was up to the challenge of Don Draper.
I happened to be rewatching The New Girl last night and caught Don's saying that she was now with Gray so if Gray buys SC the two could possibly be working together again.
More rooftop love scenes,more fantastic suits and even more fantastic hats! Please MW bring back Rachel Menken!
I love how Rachel is able to own Don Draper is so many scenes and yet she really did have a thing for him -- they both felt hurt from the experience, the scene where Don runs into her in a restaurant when she has moved on and married was hard for both of them. I think Don realized too late that Betty wasn't the one for him and wished he had met Rachel sooner. Her self possessed, confident fully developed, Barnard educated New York woman Don had never encountered or even thought existed was a revelation to Don. I loved how Rachel had such strong ideas for completely transforming her store, she wasn't just trying to boost sales to meet marketing goals.
The scene where Donald goes to Rachel when he has been confronted by Pete about his past and Rachel realizes she is only being used by Don to escape something was incredible.
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So smart and kind. Compassionate. I'm sure she was in love with Don. Probably the only one of his "women" to really fall for him. And he for her. But she did do the right thing to move on...She is who I would want to be if I were living in the early 60's. Such an amazing and well written character.
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As Admad says, she is inspirational and I loved her too. Thank you.
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Siff was born in The Bronx, New York City. She graduated from Bryn Mawr and earned a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from NYU’s heralded Tisch School of the Arts. She worked extensively in regional theater before her work on TV, and garnered numerous awards and recognition for her performances on stage. In 1997 she was nominated for a Barrymore (Philadelphia’s top theater award) for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play for the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 3’s production of David Mamet’s “Oleanna.”
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