Kiernan Shipka on Mad Men, Harry Potter, and Air Bud | Screen Tests | W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, ‘Mad Men’ actress Kiernan Shipka reflects on her young start as a Gerber baby, and reveals the one movie that always makes her cry. Transcript The first thing that I auditioned for, I don't even remember, because I was a very young child in Chicago, and I even did some Gerber Baby action. So, I was pretty little. But the first audition that I really remember vividly actually was Mad Men. I was six years old when I first auditioned for Mad Men, and I always remembered, before any audition, before any acting thing, I got so excited. I was just so obsessed. My first scene that I shot was actually the first scene that I appear as Sally, which is running on screen with a plastic bag over my head, and my mother says my clothes better not be on the floor. Not paying attention to the safety hazard. At all. That was a little bit of a trend. Little bit of a foreshadowing moment. So I was six when I started the show, and I didn't really go back and watch the whole thing until I was thirteen. I never felt like I was shielded from it, but actually going back and revisiting it when I was sick and on Netflix was a lovely treat. That scene where my character happens to be smoking, and happens to have really stylized hair, with a whole lot of hairspray, I was also scared, because I smoked the cigarette backwards the first take, which was so unpleasant. And the whole thing was like... So