In this first installment of a two-part excerpt from that interview, he shares his thoughts on Season 5 of “Mad Men” and explains how he almost walked away from it all.

“I think this season is the best yet. I really do,” Slattery said. “We were all commenting that it felt like the first season. We’ve somehow circled back after all the details and all the plot development that’s happened with everybody … it’s kind of circled back to the sort of tunnel vision on each character and various elements of each character that they’ve dialed in on. It’s somehow simpler.”
You guys are going to want to read this.