She applied for a green card to try and fix the problem, but "what was supposed to take three months took nine. I couldn't work or travel, and any momentum that I had gained from Jack & Bobby just dissipated."

"I was ready to move back to my parents' place, ready to get a job at my friend's bar back home and just pack it in," she tells Esquire. But then, a chance to land the role of a lifetime came along. "I had nothing left to lose. I went into the audition [for Mad Men] thinking,'This is it. If you don't like it, that's fine. Nobody else has.'"