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We can't picture anyone else as the complicated Don Draper.
''He auditioned a bunch, and part of that was because he was unknown and the network was nervous about putting the weight of the series on an unknown,'' recalls Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. ''But right away he had a real intelligence about the material, which was complicated. In some of the scenes, none of the actors we saw got them except him.''

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