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"  The end is nigh for Mad Men, one of our favorite shows on TV. The seventh and final season of the series will premiere on April 13 and (hopefully) give us a fitting conclusion to the story of tormented ad exec Don Draper. In the past few seasons, one of the breakout stars has been Jessica Par\u00E9, who plays Don&amp;#039;s eager and sometimes put-upon second wife, Megan Draper. We ran into the actress at a dinner party in L.A. celebrating Kathryn Rice&amp;#039;s new fashion line Carmella and tried to ply her for some hints as to what this season holds.  Like the rest of the cast, Par\u00E9 is under strict no-spoiler orders but she did have some thoughts on how &amp;#039;Mad Men&amp;#039; has changed her life and what it&amp;#039;s like working with Jon Hamm. Plus, the producers might want to keep the set under lock and key after shooting wraps so the actress doesn&amp;#039;t heist the Drapers&amp;#039; entire apartment. Related: 10 Questions With &amp;#039;Mad Men&amp;#039; Costume Designer Janie Bryant Are you allowed to tell me anything about the Mad Men season premiere? You&amp;#039;re so sweet for asking but I really can&amp;#039;t! I wish I could. How excited should we be about this season? Very. There&amp;#039;s so much about this season that&amp;#039;s amazing. It&amp;#039;s very bittersweet for us who have done it for years. It&amp;#039;s weird for me that I&amp;#039;m including myself in that pack, but I have done it for four years now, which is more than half [of the show]. There&amp;#039;s a lot that happens this year for sure. I don&amp;#039;t think viewers will be disappointed. I have to say I was a fan of the show long before I was cast and I really feel like this season is hit after hit. The punches keep on coming. It&amp;#039;s what I would want from the final season. Do you feel like your character has changed a lot since you joined the show? Megan has changed so much since we first saw her. That first time she was really so forgettable, maybe intentionally. She fades into the background a little bit. When I looked back at the end of my first season there are points where she&amp;#039;s singled out and there are points where she&amp;#039;s highlighted, but they aren&amp;#039;t so obvious to you in the moment. But that&amp;#039;s the genius of [creator] Matt [Weiner]&amp;#039;s writing and of the writers on the show. They&amp;#039;re so talented at doing exactly that. Related: Mad About You: Jessica Par\u00E9 What did you think about the online theory that last season was foreshadowing Megan&amp;#039;s murder by putting her in a T-shirt that was identical to one worn by Sharon Tate in 1967? It&amp;#039;s just as valid as anything else. I know Matt has said in interviews that it was just a T-shirt. It didn&amp;#039;t mean more than a T-shirt. But I&amp;#039;m not sure that I trust that! He&amp;#039;s so good at saying one thing and doing the other, which we see in his writing all the time. So of course why wouldn&amp;#039;t it be the case? Have you started to think about your life post-&amp;#039;Mad Men&amp;#039;? Having done this show, having worked with these people, having said these amazing words that I get a chance to say every day, my life is never going to be the same. That said, I&amp;#039;m still terrified! It&amp;#039;s a big world and there&amp;#039;s a lot of amazing things going on in television now, partially because of Matt and Mad Men. So hopefully I&amp;#039;ll land on my feet. Related: How the Ladies of &amp;#039;Mad Men&amp;#039; Would Respond to Modern Day Fashion Is there anything you want to steal from the set when it&amp;#039;s over? Oh my gosh, so much stuff. How about the Drapers&amp;#039; apartment? The first day [on that set], I was like, &amp;#039;My TV life is so much more luxurious than my real life.&amp;#039; That whole apartment I would take. I just need a warehouse to put it in. But there are things that are as simple as a bath robe. [Costume designer] Janie Bryant is so incredible. And there are some of the hair and makeup looks I just wish I could take with me. I always watch the show and think, &amp;#039;How do these people look so pulled together all the time?&amp;#039; They&amp;#039;re so good at it! Believe me, when I finish shooting Mad Men there&amp;#039;s a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I&amp;#039;m not very good at applying fake lashes. Has any of the style from the show made its way into your own look? There&amp;#039;s a lot of stuff. There&amp;#039;s a lot of stuff I never would have tried had it not been for the show. For one thing, Janie Bryant has me in way more colors and way more patterns than I would have ever worn before. My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors. But Janie has me in so many bright colors that I&amp;#039;ve realized there is actually a shade of yellow that I can wear. We&amp;#039;ve done a lot of makeup looks that I would have said right off the bat, &amp;#039;No way.&amp;#039; What can you tell us about working with Jon Hamm? He is super talented\u2013I don&amp;#039;t have to tell you that. He&amp;#039;s obviously very handsome. I don&amp;#039;t have to tell you that either. He&amp;#039;s an incredible actor and he&amp;#039;s very generous. That makes him amazing to work with. Add to that he&amp;#039;s really fucking fun and funny and always up for a laugh. He&amp;#039;s really interested in everyone around him so it&amp;#039;s great. He&amp;#039;s the perfect co-worker. The first time you met him were you like &amp;#039;Whoa, he&amp;#039;s so attractive&amp;#039;? Totally. Yes. Photo: Getty Images  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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