Alison Brie and Kiernan Shipka Reflect on 'Mad Men' 15 Years Later (Exclusive)

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’s 15th anniversary in July, Alison Brie and Kiernan Shipka are reflecting on the impact of creator Matthew Weiner’s AMC series about the professional and personal lives of employees at an advertising firm set in the 1960s. “I was like, ‘15 years, but I haven’t aged a day,’” Brie joked about looking back on the series.The actress played Trudy, the wife of young, ambitious account executive Peter Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), while Shipka played Sally, the wide-eyed daughter of charismatic and often-troubled creative director Don Draper (Jon Hamm).

For Brie, the series was her first major onscreen role, quickly followed by her breakout part as Annie on NBC’s, which overlapped for several seasons. “First of all, that show really changed my life, and it was one of the first things I worked on in television,” she told ET’s Lauren Zima while promoting Apple TV+’s new female-led anthology series,, in which she stars in a -like episode. “Coming out of college and theater school, that was one of my first jobs and it really taught me a lot about acting on the small screen,” she continued. “I had studied theater and I wasn’t used to being on camera.

And that show was so nuanced and the writing was so intricate, so it was really like a second kind of school for me, in terms of learning how to act on camera.” Since ended in 2015, the TV landscape has changed dramatically, with reboots and revivals now a major trend.

But that’s not something Brie wants to see happen to the beloved drama, which ran for seven seasons. “I think it’s just so perfect as it was and reboots are so tricky, you know.