LOS ANGELES -- Billy Crudup’s father was a salesman, but he wasn’t very good at it, his son says.
“For him, it wasn’t selling,” the Emmy-winning actor explains. “It was meeting people. He wanted to find out what would make them feel a little better and he had an angle on how to find it.”
To provide a look at the kind of optimism the show promotes, Producer Ryan Kalil collected training videos used to recruit car salesmen in the 1950s. When he showed them to the writers, they realized those salesmen were the first ones to be duped. “Jack is the one who buys his own line completely,” Jansen says.
In the initial script there were pages of descriptions about the world’s gadgets and designs. Characters, according to co-star Alison Pill, had their own color palettes. “They changed elements enough to say, ‘This is the ‘50s in a way you haven’t seen.’ It definitely puts you into the world.”
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