Canadian actress Jessica Paré's Mad Men character Megan Draper has been the subject of discussion recently, after she wore a tee-shirt similar to one the late actress Sharon Tate wore in Esquire in 1967 -- some fans have suggested the character will either die soon, or is dead already.

The actress told Esquire on Thursday that she's mostly amused by all the suspicion.

"For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play," she said, added that the discussions fans have about the show's character are some of her favorite things about working there.

Even Paré doesn't know what Megan's fate is. However, she does have her own idea about the shirt's meaning, and it's much less brutal.

"We were trying to find a t-shirt, where this woman was on her balcony, by herself, and not really expecting her husband being home so soon and she's just wearing underwear and a t-shirt -- looking vulnerable and casual," she said, of the reunion scene that ended episode 9, The Better Half.

"He'd come home and see her in this vulnerable state and she'd just say it, say exactly what she's thinking, she added, noting that it's something "people rarely do in life, but people do on TV and especially on this show."

On last week's episode, A Tale Of Two Cities, Megan made an appearance in Don's hashish-fueled hallucination. Paré enjoys doing the drug scenes, as it "definitely [allows] that kind of performance where you let your self go to that kind of state, [where] you start to feel it a little bit," she said, "which is fun."

Paré reflected on the particular situation in episode 10, saying that she got to behave especially out of character there.

"I actually wasn't playing Megan; I was playing Don," she said, or at least, "Don's desire of what she would be.

"He wants all of her. He wants her to be entirely his. He wants a family, he wants a baby, he wants to start over, that closeness, that intimacy again. For me, it breaks my heart."

Paré also thanked her co-star Jon Hamm for helping her connect emotionally with her character.

"I'm fortunate enough to be working with an actor who is soooo talented and is a generous actor," Paré said of Hamm.

"We have a lot of these scenes that are very intimate, and very tender. Those are the kind of things that an actor lives for.

"It ends up being... not fun, but fulfilling," the actress resolved.

Still, Paré ultimately changed her mind on the matter: "You know what, it's fun, too."

Check out the preview for Sunday's Mad Men episode, Favors.

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