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"Vincent Kartheiser has insisted that his Mad Men character Pete is not a rapist. In an episode of the show in season three, Pete slept with his neighbour&amp;#039;s au pair. Some viewers suggested that Pete raped her, but the Wall Street Journal reports that Kartheiser has insisted this is not true. &amp;quot;It says in the scene, &amp;#039;She kisses him back&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; Kartheiser said. &amp;quot;After she kisses me back, then we&amp;#039;re supposed to copulate. I don&amp;#039;t know why but she wouldn&amp;#039;t kiss me back! That actress just didn&amp;#039;t want to smooch me. She changed the whole course of Pete Campbell. And [creator] Matthew [Weiner] was all, &amp;#039;You didn&amp;#039;t rape her! I don&amp;#039;t know why people are saying you raped her! That wasn&amp;#039;t supposed to be rape!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Kartheiser added that he doesn&amp;#039;t mind if people dislike Pete because everyone has their own view. &amp;quot;When people tell me that they hate him and love Don Draper, it tells me a lot about who they are,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not a misunderstanding. It&amp;#039;s a representation of the viewer. The way you choose to look at a Rothko and see what you see in it says so much more about you than it could about Rothko. So it&amp;#039;s the same with Pete Campbell. What you see in Pete Campbell says so much more about you than my portrayal ever could. &amp;quot;I leave it up to the audience to have their own idea about it and to go as far as they want with it. I never try to correct people about it or say they&amp;#039;re missing the point, because it&amp;#039;s theirs.&amp;quot; The fourth season of Mad Men is currently airing in the UK on Wednesdays at 10pm on BBC Four. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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