'Mad Men' Season 7 Spoilers: Harry Hamlin Drops Hints About Jim Cutler's Fate
"Mad Men" will not return to AMC until next year, but fans are already anxiously anticipating the second half of the seventh and final season this week.
Fortunately, abating "Mad Men" fans' curiosity, one of the series' stars Harry Hamlin discussed the hit drama. Hamlin joined "Mad Men" in season six, and his character Jim Cutler has become a central part of the show. Opening up right after the mid-season finale, Hamlin admitted that his interpretation of the episode "Waterloo" was left to his own interpretation just as it was for "Mad Men" viewers since series creator Matthew Weiner is notoriously tight-lipped about the plot.
"I was reading the script of 'Waterloo' and I thought, 'This is my waterloo, Cutler is going down,'" Hamlin said while speaking to the Wall Street Journal. "I went to [creator and producer] Matthew Weiner and I said, 'What, am I being exiled?' He said, 'No not you,' which led me to believe it was Don Draper's waterloo. But then the Hollywood Reporter said it was my waterloo."
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Nevertheless, Hamlin was careful not to reveal any spoilers about the rest of season seven since he was "forbidden" to disclose any information about the series finale. However, the actor recalled the scene where Cutler and "Mad Men" main character Don Draper almost came to blows during "Waterloo," revealing that the scene was shot within a couple of takes without any rehearsal. Furthermore, the 62-year-old actor admitted that Cutler is "kind of a jerk."
"I am a pragmatist on the show, I'm a bottom line guy, I want what's best for the business and I want what's best for me," Hamlin said of his character. "That makes me kind of a jerk, but in the end I'm going to be a very wealthy jerk."
Meanwhile, although Weiner carefully keeps the rest of season seven under wraps, the series creator recently promised that "there's more story left to tell."
"The challenge for the season and ending the show is that it's new ground for me," he explained to Vulture. "I've never done it before, the writers have never done it before … What you don't want is a bunch of scenes checking in with people. The challenge is to continue to tell a story and hopefully people will feel that way when they see the second half of the season. All I can say is this split-season thing has made us really focus on the main characters, and there's more story left to tell."
"Mad Men" season seven will resume on AMC in April 2015.
