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Mad Men continues to rock my world. Tonight's episode of the advertising-in-1960 drama finally gets around to Salvatore, the art director who from a modern perspective is obviously a big 'mo.
Yesterday I got to chat with Bryan Batt, the actor who plays Sal. When not busy adding fabulous new gigs to the gayest resume ever, he and his partner own a stylin' boutique in New Orleans.
He fessed up as to which of the set's luscious period pieces he's most likely to steal, how far his character has to go before he gets out of the closet, and how lucky he is to have met the man of his dreams so early in his career. A little excerpt:
Out.com: Many people think Hollywood is the most closeted workplace in America.
Bryan Batt: You might be right. There's this double standard. I'm just one of those people -- I cannot live a lie. I just can't. I was very lucky -- I met my partner, and we've been together for 18 years. I was coming of age in the AIDS crisis, everyone on Broadway was dying around me. Even when I did Jeffrey, people were telling me, "Don't come out, don't come out." I was like, I am out. I already am. I never dated girls -- I was with Tom. I'm lucky to be able to live my happy life. There are some actors who live these quiet and duplicitous lives where they can't really have what they want. But I say, sooner or later, love is gonna get you.
The full Q&A is over at Out.com. Don't forget to stumble home to Popnography when you're done, OK?
> This interview on NPR with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is great and super-smart (he came off The Sopranos boat, so it's hardly surprising).
> Um, also: This still from tonight's epsiode -- not at all involving Sal -- totally makes it look like Don's about to have a threesome with his hot boho girlfriend and her (other) dippy poetry-reading Village scenester boyfriend.
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