January Jones auditioned for both Emma and Moira

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

Scotsman featured January Jones in an interview about her role as Betty Draper in “Mad Men” and her various movie appearances. Interestingly, she reveals she tried out for both Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) and Emma Frost for “X-Men: First Class.”

By Siobhan Synnot

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Earlier this she was cast as Liam Neeson’s wife in Unknown: not sad, but like Betty, a sexy enigma. No wonder she jumped at the chance to play a mutant with mental powers, diamond-hard skin and an all-white wardrobe, Emma Frost.

“I had auditioned for both Emma Frost and Moira in LA. There was a month or two of shooting left on Mad Men and the movie wasn’t supposed to start while we were still shooting.

“My impression was it wasn’t going to work out, schedule-wise but then it got pushed so I was happily able to do it. The day after I wrapped Mad Men, I flew to London. There was no break. I went from being a 1960s housewife to a mutant.”

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Read the rest of the interview here. She talks more about her role as Emma Frost, but there is nothing new she has not discussed before.

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