Mad Men star Alexa Alemanni has admitted that she was shocked by a recent storyline involving her character Allison.
The second episode of the AMC drama's fourth season saw the secretary sleep with her boss Don Draper (Jon Hamm).
"It was pretty shocking," she told the AMC blog. "I think it's so incredibly well-written and it makes sense how it happens. Those scenes are always strange and awkward and you wonder how it's gonna go, but I've been on the show since the beginning so it was really relaxed and comfortable."
Alemanni - who started on the series as an extra - revealed that she was happy that her role had grown over the show's previous three seasons.
"I started as the receptionist and I had a couple of scenes during the [first] season and then I would kind of keep popping up all over the office," she explained. "They just kept bringing me back, which was so exciting."
The actress confessed that she felt intimidated when she learnt that her character would play a more central role in the current fourth season.
"There's a long line of pretty fabulous women that have slept with Don Draper, so you certainly feel that pressure," she said.
Mad Men continues on Sundays at 10/9c on AMC.
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