Luckily, my goddaughter was still in town. My mother was scheduled to fly out soon after the storm. As the storm barreled towards New Orleans, we were vacationing in Sonoma and couldn't get back in time. I was splitting my time between New York and New Orleans, going back and forth for shows. We'd finally open the store.Įverything fell into place. There was a proposed business plan and life picked the date. When funding for a show I was set to appear in fell through, we decided the time was right. For years Tom, my partner of 26 years (now husband), and I always had dreamt that one day we'd open a home furnishings shop in my hometown of New Orleans. But a smart actor always has a second interest, an off-hours job. In 2004, I was acting regularly in New York's theater scene. That I even auditioned to play Mad Men's first art director took luck. Rich Sommer (Harry Crane), Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove), Michael Gladis (Paul Kinsey), Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell), and Bryan Batt (Sal Romano) Media Platforms Design Team Afterward, Matt called to tell me he thought the scene was fantastic. And then Janie Bryant, the costume designer, who I bonded with over a love for New Orleans, outfitted me in a vest with a little embroidered fleur-de-lis on it. On that shoot, Aaron Staton, Vinnie Kartheiser, Rich Sommer, and Michael Gladis all showed up on set for moral support. up until that episode my role sort of consisted of a quip here and an arch look there. When I filmed my first meaty scene in season one, where Paul Keeley's Belle Jolie salesman attempts to cajole my character, Salvatore Romano, into going to his hotel room, to be honest, I was a little bit nervous. No projecting, no worrying, no bitterness-only enjoyment. The minute we started Matthew Weiner's tale of life, love, and advertising, I sat back and just enjoyed it. If there's another high that comes close, it was Mad Men. Not always, but it wouldn't be the last time. A friend of mine told me, "Enjoy this-it doesn't always happen like this." And, when the film arrived in theaters, I was stepping into the leading male role of Broadway's Sunset Boulevard. When they made the film, I got to keep my role and appear alongside Sigourney Weaver, Olympia Dukakis, Nathan Lane, and Patrick Stewart. In 1995, I had the good fortune of creating a role onstage in the New York production of Paul Rudnick's sex comedy Jeffrey. In this exclusive told to senior writer Matt Patches, Batt reflects on the character, his career, and the experience of playing a pivotal role in a bona fide classic. So we decided to give Sal the sendoff he deserves. That was the last time actor Bryan Batt appeared on the series, leaving many to wonder: "What happened to Sal?" Unfortunately, when Mad Men takes its final bow this Sunday, audiences won't have an answer. On the ninth episode of Mad Men's third season, Don Draper fired Salvatore Romano by request of a major client who threatened to take his business elsewhere (and whose advances had been rejected by the closeted art director just the night before).
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