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When John Slattery began playing the dashing and witty Roger Sterling on AMC’s “Mad Men,” he had no idea that he was signing on to become Roger Sterling, quite literally. The man can’t get away from the character. Whether it’s in his smooth narration of Lincoln car commercials or in his latest film, “The Adjustment Bureau” — in which he appears in a getup strikingly similar to that of the 1960s ad executive — Slattery and Sterling are more and more becoming one and the same.

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John Slattery, of the hit TV show "Mad Men," has big plans to make a short film based on a story heard on "This American Life" called "Squirrel Cop."

"Squirrel Cop" is about a police officer whose first day on the job goes terribly wrong when he responds to a call about a squirrel in the attic of a couple’s home.

Slattery, who plays ad executive Roger Sterling on the AMC show "Mad Men," says he was struck by the humor in the officer's voice.

"It's just so visual too," said Slattery. "His description is so good. I guess I always thought it would make a funny short film. Somebody else agreed and so we are in the process of trying to make that happen."

Slattery said he's still trying to figure out how to tell the story in film. He says the goal is to try and be faithful to his vision of the story.

Audio: John Slattery and "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner spoke with KPCC's Alex Cohen.

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Roger Sterling's divine folly-autobiography Sterling’s Gold is now a real book coming out from Grove/Atlantic just in time for the holidays. So, as high-roller Sterling might have advised, we took our questions about the in-show book’s real-world development straight to the top. Grove’s publisher Morgan Entrekin tells us that he first caught up with Mad Men a couple of seasons in, after creator Matt Weiner’s manager, Kieth Addis — a good friend of the social-butterfly publisher — insisted he watch. By this past spring, Entrekin was hooked. “It’s got the kind of sensibility and texture of a good social novel," Entrekin says, "a portrait of an era." That's when Addis asked Entrekin which imprints he should consider pitching on Sterling’s Gold, a then-fictional book that he promised was going to feature big in season four. “I said, ‘How about we do it?’” By August they were working out a complicated deal (given the multiple rights-holders involved) to get Weiner himself to write the preface and the bullet points in the book, in the voice of the character who, Entrekin says, “gets all the good lines.”

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Lately, Roger Sterling has been on the ropes at the offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. He lost the Lucky Strike account and, for a moment, seemed to lose his mojo. Our commenters (and writers) have even been speculating that Roger might fall so low, he'll off himself. So Vulture was particularly excited to speak with John Slattery after this week's episode — both because Roger seems to have reached such a turning point and because it was Slattery's second turn at directing an episode. We talked to him about Roger's fate, the frustrations and pleasures of directing on such a hypercontrolled show, and why he thinks that Roger could truly be happy with Joan.

I have to say, I feel like I’m talking to the most popular guy in school after talking to some of your castmates.
[Laughs.] Is that true? Really?

Yes, everyone speaks very highly of you.
Well, that’s nice to hear! I paid them all off very handsomely.

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TV Guide Network is on the red carpet at the 2010 Emmy Awards! Host Tanika Ray interviews John Slattery of Mad Men.



'Mad Men' made a third consecutive win for the prestigious best drama series.

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Last Sunday's "Mad Men" episode was John Slattery's debut as a director. Not just directing for TV, but directing anything. And it was such a success - as I said in my review, it was a bright and funny episode that still managed to shift gears for big emotional moments involving Peggy and Pete - that when another director dropped out of directing this season's penultimate episode, Slattery wound up filling the slot.

Slattery is in the middle of directing and acting in that episode this week, but he took a few minutes to talk with me about how he got the gig, what he learned, how his co-stars responded to his direction, and more. All of that coming up after the jump...

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