January Jones is now in her third season on Mad Men playing Betty Draper, the seemingly perfect wife to Don Draper’s seemingly perfect husband. Of course, beneath the well-maintained exterior, everything is not so perfect for Betty, which Jones captures in a carefully calibrated performance that is sometimes underappreciated because of its subtlety—and also, perhaps, because of Jones’s Grace Kelly-ish looks. For my feature story on Mad Men in the current issue of Vanity Fair, we sat down to talk in the living room of her modest home in the Hollywood Hills. With her hair uncurled, and dressed in jeans and a sweater, she could have passed for Betty’s 21st century counterpart. Bruce Handy: What I love about the show is that it’s so rich. In any given scene, ten different things could be going on—as in one of my favorite scenes in the first season, the episode where Roger comes over for dinner and he makes that pass at Betty. To me, when I watched you play that, I was seeing a lot of different emotions going on: she’s kind of scared, she’s maybe a teeny bit interested, she’s a little bit grossed out…

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