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The Climber John Slattery actor in just about everything finally rises through the ranks in ‘Mad Men’ Veteran TV actor John Slattery spent last year dividing his time between two very different shows about the American íd: Mad Men and Desperate Housewives. One pays well, but the other is the revelation. In AMC’s Mad Men, set in a 1960s Madison Avenue ad agency, vodka-and-milk passes for breakfast, secretaries take alt the wrong kinds of dictation, and the happiness-for-sale modern era is forged. Slattery is Roger Sterling, an aloofly confident boss (“My name’s on the building,” he says) with a taste for everything under the sun except family. As Slattery plays him, you’d love to have a drink (or seven) with the guy. Slattery explains how he pulls it all off . • On simultaneous roles in Mad Men and Desperate Housewives: “I had just bought a house. The Housewives producers said, ‘Do you want to do a year on the show?’ The men don’t get as much interesting material as the women, but it’s watched by, what, 20 million people a week? I had a good year.” • On the fate of his Mad Men character, Roger Sterling: “The last time you see Roger in season one, he has his second heart attack. I said to [creator] Matt Weiner, ‘What the hell?’ He said, ‘Don’t worry. My uncle had six heart attacks.’ I was like, ‘Okay, right. Fantastic.’’’ • On the Mad Men set: “It’s a lot of props: You’re doing dialogue while lighting cigarettes, dealing with the clothes, pouring drinks ... But my sister could roll a joint while driving a Volkswagen Bug, so I thought, Hell, I can do this.” • On playing a politician with a urine fetish on (yes) Sex and the City: “Sex and the City probably has a lot of alumni with erectile dysfunction or latex fetishes or whatever. We should all compare notes.” (WILL WELCH - GQConnects Aug08)