A fascinating profile:
Sometimes, Vincent Kartheiser says, fame isn’t all it might be. … For instance, he says, he’d met a woman the previous night and they’d talked for 10 minutes, before she had asked him the inevitable question: “How do I know your face?” ¶ Kartheiser had no option but to own up. “I said, ‘I’m that guy Pete Campbell in the TV show Mad Men.’” ¶ And then it started. Kartheiser shrugs, resigned: “She said, ‘Oh my God, I fucking hate you.’ And I go, ‘Well, you mean you hate my character.’ She said, ‘No, it’s more than that. When you come on the screen, I don’t want to be in the room. It’s a completely physical thing. You make my flesh creep. I loathe you.’”
That — that right there — is why Pete Campbell is my favourite character in Mad Men. I hate him, I can’t help hating him, but I want him to redeem himself. ¶ Also, Kartheiser lives in an empty wooden box.