Thinking about life after Mad Men: Jessica Paré

As her role as Don Draper’s wife winds down, Jessie Paré’s career continues with a film that gets its premiere in Cork tomorrow, writes Marjorie Brennan.

IT’S not easy being married to Don Draper. There’s the knee-trembling good looks, charm and glamorous job in advertising of course but along with that goes the emotional cruelty, the drinking, the adultery.

But for Mad Men star Jessica Paré, who plays the role of Megan, the wife of the suave but tortured protagonist in the critically acclaimed show, it has been an amazing experience. Now Paré has swapped Manhattan in the Swinging Sixties for the streets of contemporary Dublin in the Irish film Standby, which is having its world premiere at the Cork Film Festival tomorrow.