That sensation is addictive. It got bad. I have to catch up a little. He let them grow organically through the story. It was just heaven, as an actor, because all you had to do was show up and deliver the lines in character as honestly as you could. The audience knew more than you did. It was handled on the up and up. Matt called me, and we talked. What turned out to be my last day of shooting was really great. Oh yes, I loved all of that.
Bobby Morse is my favorite. We sang that song together when we bumped into each other on the red carpet at the premiere. With networks, you jump through hoops. But Matt had a clear vision and the people paying the bills let him realize it. Matt and I didn't have many long discussions about Sal. We'd chat on set, at events or parties, or maybe at a table read where he'd give a few notes. Matt knows how to talk to actors, how to get very specific. He had to be to make the show he wanted.
On set there was no time. Not an exact figure, but Mad Men was expensive. The actors had to be prepared and go, go, go. Luckily, Matt knew what he wanted. At my makeup and wardrobe test, he came over and said, "You know what's going to happen to Sal?
And Sal's going to go on the trip too. He's going to have sex with some guy and Don's going to find out—but it's not going to matter. I had just been cast. All I knew was: This was television! I was going to bring Matt's image of Sal to life. The first season was so magical.
We filmed the pilot in New York in We had to wait the entire year because Matt was still working on The Sopranos. I remember Matt inviting me and other cast members to a screening. It blew me away. Matt told me that the music cue was for me—a Broadway reference. Oh God, I couldn't say thank you enough. Once we saw the pilot, I realized that they were never going to let us look bad, never going to have a bad shot.
All the attention to detail, all the attention to script and storytelling, was so well-crafted that it was like doing a trapeze act while the filmmakers held the net for you. They're not going to let you fall and hurt yourself.
Mad Men 's casting breakdown made two points about Sal: He was the artistic director of Sterling Cooper and, to a modern audience, it was clear that he was gay, but not to the world of That felt universal. I think everyone in their lives, in some way, shape, or form, pretends to fit in. Being a gay man, I knew what that was like. I was able to channel that, adding in bits of research from the period. Gay activists and many others would be pleased to know that Matt was adamant about having a gay man play this part.
That never came up during the audition—I'd like to think I wasn't cast because I was gay—but it was nice to hear those words. You don't hear that often in this business. I'm an open book. I've performed many roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway where I had to play straight—it's called acting!
I tend to over-gesture, perhaps it's the French in me, so for TV, everything had to be dialed down to make each moment a little flare of a cigarette, a glint in the eye. It had to be very stylized and very subtle. Notes on set helped. I'll never forget one of the boardroom scenes one of the many, many boardroom scenes. We were shooting into the night, picking up each person's dialogue from every possible angle. After one early take, the director came to me with a note: "Bryan, that was great Matt is one of these creative people that does not want to be told what to do by the network.
Weiner, in fact, resisted network interference over the interrupted-sex scene between Sal and the bellhop during the season-three premiere, Batt said.
Batt said Weiner once shared a possible return for Sal that revealed he'd become a successful commercial director. Batt, who's got a role in MTV's upcoming " Scream ," currently filming in Baton Rouge, said his "Mad Men" experience was "wonderful from beginning to end," however sudden the end was. Got a TV question? He even had a wife, Kitty Romano, whom he married between seasons 1 and 2.
Season 3 further developed Sal's character, deepening and complicating his relationship with Kitty and seeing Sal explore his new love for film directing. Although Sal had some close calls regarding his sexuality being discovered, he was never "outed"; rather, his exit from the series is a shocking end for a character, who appeared to be heading towards a more significant role within Mad Men as season 3 progressed.
Even actor Bryan Batt expected his character to return at some point in the series — even in just a cameo role [via Esquire ]. That scene never occurred, and audiences were left without closure regarding the fate of Salvatore Romano. Batt relates that numerous times, Weiner told him " this was the course for the character, but that [Batt] shouldn't worry: Sal would come back.
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