Sally All Grown Up

So the world is projecting its "prone to becoming obsessed with mature, talented teen stars" capabilities onto Kiernan Shipka, and I'm totally on board. By no means do I want this to become the Kiernan Shipka/Sally Draper obsession blog, and it won't. Let me know if it's getting too much...really.

For now, I'd love to present a recent editorial by Vanity Fair, that has the 14-year-old posing in high fashion labels like Balenciaga and Saint Laurent. As much as I want to critique the star looking a bit too old, I can't, because she also looks quite angelic.

Below are my absolute favorite photos from the shoot, and a few takeaways from the story: 

1. Kiernan got dropped off at the coffee shop, where she met editor Bruce Handy, by her mom. Nice touch that it wasn't an agent.

2. She wore a vintage Céline sweater, alongside a Rag & Bone skirt. She solidified her adolescent yet high fashion tendencies by keeping a Hello Kitty wallet inside a brightly colored Miu Miu purse.

 

3. We get an amazing recap of all of Sally's greatest moments: "More recently, the teenage Sally has been scolded for masturbating, walked in on her step-grandmother giving one of Don’s colleagues a blow job, had her first period, while playing hooky at the Museum of Natural History, caught her father on top of his latest mistress, boasted to friends that 'I know how to make a Tom Collins,' and been given a cigarette by her mother in an odd moment of familial détente." Good times, good times.

4. Picking child actors when they are 6 years old is a risk: "You don’t think when you pick someone when they’re six years old that they’re going to do that seven years later.” It was a bonus, or luck, that she turned out to be both a 'sponge' and a 'prodigy.'"

5. Sally's parents get a say in the plot. I mean, she is their daughter. Weiner discusses any controversial scenes that Sally may be a part of with her mother.  Weiner said, “We are all very cognizant that we’re talking about a real childhood here. I don’t want to take away Kiernan’s innocence as we take away Sally’s, so we’re very careful about that." That's nice.

6. Last but not least, the article ends with:

“Please don’t let Sally break our hearts this season.”

“I can’t promise that,” she said sweetly. 

Ouch.