Yay! Elisabeth Moss (Peggy from Mad Men) is doing press to promote Mad Men and her Sundance miniseries Top of the Lake. Considering the timing, I think this GQ shoot is more for Mad Men, but really, it’s both. First of all, are we disappointed in Moss for “tarting it up” for GQ in this photo shoot? I have mixed feelings. First of all, Moss usually doesn’t tart it up at all. She barely has any fashion sense, her hair is usually in some kind of “hot mess” state, and I think she views herself as a “proper actress” not a celebrity. So on that side, I think it’s cute that she got out of her comfort zone, took off her pants and allowed herself to be photographed looking like she just rolled out of bed, and she does look adorable and sexy in these photos. On the other side… yeah, it sucks that even “proper actresses” get sexualized to this degree.
You can see the full GQ slideshow here. The interview is barely there – they basically just asked her two questions, because I guess they didn’t care what she had to say. But her answer to one of the questions was hilarious – she was asked “F—k, Marry, Kill” for Roger Sterling, Don Draper and Pete Campbell, and this was her answer: “Oh brother. I don’t want to marry any of them! Impossible! I guess I’d marry…Sterling? F–k Don. And I guess I’d have to kill Pete? But let me say for the record that none of these things I’d ever want to do.” Is it weird that I would probably do the same? I would marry Roger in a heartbeat. He’s old, he’s funny, he’s rich, he’s sassy and he’ll be dead by the 1970s. SCORE. And I would want to bang Don Draper, because of course (and I wouldn’t want to marry that mess either). And then you’d just have to kill Pete by default, because no one wants to bang him or marry him.
As for Lizzie’s side-project – the Sundance miniseries Top of the Lake – it looks good, but I bet it’s incredibly slow. The preview reminded of Wallander, which is basically a show that could easily be a brisk 40-minute police procedural but they spread it out with angst, grumpiness and “mood” so by the end of the hour and half, you no longer give a crap about the crime. Here’s the preview:
Photos courtesy: Steven Pan / GQ.
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