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"  Photo: Getty Images Mad Men stars Jessica Par\u00E9 and January Jones analyzed their characters&amp;#039; evolution in the show&amp;#039;s sixth season at a special program at the Paley Center for Media in New York last night. Par\u00E9, who stars as Megan, Don Draper&amp;#039;s second wife, said last year that Megan &amp;quot;was struggling with her decision to become an actor, but this year she&amp;#039;s got a job. She&amp;#039;s a career woman; she has a home, a family, and a husband\u2014she&amp;#039;s kinda got it all. It&amp;#039;s sort of a precarious position for anybody to be in, now obviously as much as then.&amp;quot; For her part, Jones\u2014who portrays Betty, Don Draper&amp;#039;s first wife, now married to Henry Francis\u2014said her character &amp;quot;is always trying to find a place in her life where she can be happy, and she&amp;#039;s maybe not sure what that is going to be always, but she continues to try. Overall, I find it to be darker and sadder, the show as a whole.&amp;quot; Asked what surprised her most about plot developments in the sixth season, Jones pointed to its generally dark tone. &amp;quot;Matt (Weiner, producer and writer of Mad Men) will say it, too. I&amp;#039;ve heard him say it, it&amp;#039;s dark, it&amp;#039;s dark. 1968 was a really tough year for America and Americans, I think you&amp;#039;ll see that in the characters,&amp;quot; Jones said. Par\u00E9 said for Megan, &amp;quot;the miscarriage was something that I hadn&amp;#039;t seen coming. But for me both as an actor and for Megan, it was pretty great that we got to go to Hawaii.&amp;quot; Kiernan Shipka\u2014who portrays Betty and Don Draper&amp;#039;s oldest child, Sally\u2014discussed the dress she was wearing, a red and black Oscar de la Renta. She said she loved its silhouette, &amp;quot;I love stuff that&amp;#039;s sort of fitted at one point and then it flares out to kind of give balance. I think that&amp;#039;s really pretty.&amp;quot; Now that the filming of the sixth season is over, Shipka said she is &amp;quot;still very active,&amp;quot; doing taekwondo (she has a black belt), tennis, &amp;quot;just doing school and all sorts of fun stuff.&amp;quot; Oh to be young! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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