Don: “With you or without you, I’m moving on. And I don’t know if I can do it alone. Will you help me?”
Peggy: “What if I say no? You’ll never speak to me again.”
Don: “No. I will spend the rest of my life trying to hire you.”

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Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss Discuss Mad Men Season 5

Some of the best moments of the series are duets between you two, as in “The Suitcase.” What is it about Don and Peggy?

JH: It’s not a mistake that the show starts on Peggy’s first day at work. In many ways, the story of Mad Men is the story of Peggy Olson: a young, ambitious, talented girl finding her way in this crazy world. I think Don and Peggy have a special relationship. They’re unsatisfied with who they are and are willing to do what it takes to become something else.

EM: People are constantly asking if they’re gonna sleep together. I always get annoyed, because their relationship is more than that. And to keep that going over five years without selling out and having something else happen—that to me is really interesting and rarely done well.

JH: People want to put us in a “Sam and Diane” box, but it’s about their mutual appreciation for the work. That’s where the material strikes its resonant chord, when it’s ostensibly about one thing and then it becomes about so much more. That’s the fun thing about Don and Peggy, and that’s the deeper thing about Mad Men.

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