Elisabeth Moss on the bangs that changed America (or, at least, her career)

I saved my dumbest question for last when interviewing Elisabeth Moss: I asked her about the goofy bangs she's forced to wear as Peggy, Sterling Cooper's growing-less-innocent-by-the-episode junior copywriter on "Mad Men."

"I've had such a journey with those things," she laughs. "I didn't like them at first, at all. And Matt [Weiner, series creator] insisted. And then I realized he was correct - they give her a youth and innocence that's very good.

"I slowly grew to detest them, absolutely hate them. And now I've slowly come back around to think that they're so perfect for Peggy. They make her so individual, and I actually don't mind them anymore - I can't believe I'm even saying that."

There may come a time, I suggested, when she won't have to wear them anymore because she won't need them to symbolize her innocence. "Perhaps not," she mused, then brightened. "Yay!"

(Again, the full story comes Sunday, when "Mad Men" returns on AMC.)