While Morbius actor Jared Harris is best known on television these days for playing Hari Seldon in the Apple TV subscription-exclusive Foundation, I still back fondly on when he played Lane Pryce on AMC’s Mad Men. Unfortunately, Lane had one of the most tragic exits of the show, as he died by suicide in his office towards the end of Season 5. However, there was a degree of comedy in the lead-up to this tragedy that actually made Harris fall off his chair laughing. Not only that, the actor agreed to make a big sacrifice in order to protect Lane’s fate from being leaked to the public.
The actor discussed his Mad Men experience while appearing on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum. After mentioning how show creator Matthew Weiner met with him privately to inform him that Lane Pryce was being killed off, even offering him “really good expensive brandy” while breaking the news, Harris recalled:
