Warning: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Mad Men, which aired in the US on Sunday (May 17).
Jon Hamm bid a final farewell to Mad Men on Sunday (May 17), and has now spoken of the show's "ambiguous" ending.
The actor - who played Don Draper for the duration of the period drama's seven-season run - told The New York Times that he was "struck by the poetry" of the final scenes.
The closing scenes of 'Person to Person' saw Don in a meditative state at a Californian retreat, but the final moments seemed to suggest that he returned to the McCann Erickson fold - where he dreamt up the world-famous 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)' Coca Cola ad.
Asked if there is a right answer to what the final scene means, he said: "I think there probably is. But I think, like most stories that we go back to, it's a little bit ambiguous.
"We had talked about this ending for a long time and that was Matt [Weiner's] image. I was struck by the poetry of it. I didn't know what his plans were, to get Don to this meditative, contemplative place. I just knew that he had this final image in mind."
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Hamm also offered his own take on what it all meant, saying: "When we find Don in that place, and this stranger relates this story of not being heard or seen or understood or appreciated, the resonance for Don was total in that moment.
"There was a void staring at him. We see him in an incredibly vulnerable place, surrounded by strangers, and he reaches out to the only person he can at that moment, and it's this stranger.
"My take is that, the next day, he wakes up in this beautiful place, and has this serene moment of understanding, and realises who he is. And who he is, is an advertising man. And so, this thing comes to him."
Hamm has also played down the chances of a Mad Men spinoff, but said that his on-screen daughter Sally Draper, played by Kiernan Shipka, is probably most deserving of one.
Mad Men's series finale airs on Thursday (May 21) at 10pm on Sky Atlantic in the UK.
