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"Jon Hamm has described his Mad Men character Don Draper as &amp;quot;a coward&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;reprehensible&amp;quot;, but claimed that was why he loved playing the &amp;#039;60s ad agency womaniser. Ahead of Mad Men&amp;#039;s fifth season premiere next month, Hamm was speaking at a BAFTA event at the Curzon theatre in London&amp;#039;s Mayfair.  &amp;quot;Don is a wonderful character, a rich, deeply drawn character, but it&amp;#039;s a character. It&amp;#039;s not me. I&amp;#039;m glad I don&amp;#039;t have to be him. It would be exhausting,&amp;quot; said Hamm. &amp;quot;There are certainly moments when I haven&amp;#039;t liked what Don has done, some of the things he&amp;#039;s done are reprehensible. But I trust in Matt [Weiner] as a writer to put this character through these things for a reason. The reason is on the screen and it&amp;#039;s been a pretty good story so far.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;I think at the end of the day he is a coward and that&amp;#039;s what we find out as the show goes on. When presented with difficulty, he tends to runaway.&amp;quot; Commenting on the appeal of Don Draper to viewers, he suggested: &amp;quot;There is a thrill when people see someone making mistakes and someone misbehaving. You can watch them act out and not do it yourself.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Mad Men&amp;#039; Jon Hamm: &amp;#039;Season five explores Don, Joan relationship&amp;#039; Speaking about Don&amp;#039;s progression into the upcoming fifth season and beyond, Hamm hinted that there may be some redemption for his character. &amp;quot;The whole of the fourth season was about breaking this guy down. Him being stripped of his family, his children, his house. Everything combined with a serious intake of his alcohol and cigarrete intake,&amp;quot; said Hamm. &amp;quot;I think [redemption] might be at the part we&amp;#039;re getting to at this point. Him trying to repair a lot of the relationships that he&amp;#039;s broken. And hopefully find him with some kind of peace or happiness.&amp;quot;  Hamm admitted that he already knew the ending of Mad Men, which will conclude after seven seasons, but wouldn&amp;#039;t confirm whether his character would be dead or alive at the show&amp;#039;s conclusion. However, one storyline that Hamm did rule out was a romantic entanglement between Don and Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss). &amp;quot;That relationship and kinship, I think Don thinks it&amp;#039;s very special. But there&amp;#039;s nothing romantic at all. I think Don just respects her as a business commodity,&amp;quot; said Hamm. &amp;quot;There is a special kinship between Don and Peggy. It is not a mistake that the first episode starts on Peggy&amp;#039;s first day at work. I think in many ways, she is the character whose eyes we see much of the show. I think Don recognises something in Peggy, an ambition and a desire to be something else... I think he appreciates her ambition as a man who came from nothing and who got what he wanted by hook or by crook.&amp;quot; Season five of Mad Men starts on AMC on March 25. It premi\u00E8res in the UK on Sky Atlantic on March 27. &amp;gt; Mad Men season five to debut in UK two days after US &amp;gt; Mad Men exec: &amp;#039;New season is about change&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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