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Boyen Yang, SNL cast member about working with Mr Hamm
Wait, let's just speak on this," Yang said, "because I experienced this recently of getting the nerves when you're acting with a hot person. It happens all the time, but certain people really f--- your s--- up."
"When Jon Hamm was hosting SNL, and I was just like, 'Huh!'" Yang said. "Like, we were playing a couple and I was just like, 'Wait, I'm scared.'"
"Just such a wonderful person," he said of the actor. "But I was just like… First of all, you're Don Draper. Second of all, you're so handsome. Third of all, you're so funny. Like, just so many wonderful things about that man. And sometimes it knocks me off my center.
https://ew.com/bowen-yang-says-making-an-ass-out-of-yourself-on-snl-is-worth-it
Mr Hamm and John Slattery cast in a R-rated comedy.....
set against the backdrop of the entertainment industry. The film, which has the placeholder title of Untitled Celebrity Pass Movie, will be directed by David Wain.
In the cast also : Zoey Deutch, Sabrina Impacciatore, Ben Wang, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Joe Lo Truglio, Mather Zickel and Ken Marino.
Mr Hamm is one of the producer, Slaterry will be executive producer.
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At the SNL after-party
Mr Hamm was at "The 2025 Fox Upfronts day in New York got the Deadline Studio treatment May 12, when the network’s talent gathered for portrait photos in the ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton Nomad."
Mr Hamm was there for Grimsburg
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promote Your Friends & Neighbors at The Think Apple TV+ Emmy House in L. A.
leaving Madison Garden
GQ interview
“It’s funny, [people are] like, Where you been?” Hamm says with a chuckle. “I’ve been around. I’ve been working, man. You should see my calendar.”
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“I’m not an overthinker,” Hamm says with a shrug, slicing up Italian sausages and tossing some to his dog Murphy. “I generally, and genuinely, have the capacity to make a decision, feel good about the decision, and not stress. I feel comfortable when I finally come to the decision, I’m like, ‘All right, let’s do it. Let’s go.’ Full speed ahead, you know what I mean?”
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he’s more stressed about hosting his first episode of SNL in years. (“I checked in with Tina Fey, [Colin] Jost, [John] Mulaney, and a couple of the other guys, like, ‘Anybody have any ideas? What are we going to do here?’” he says, casually flexing the murderers’ row of funny people on his phone he can hit for an assist.) Either this new show will do well, and perhaps shape the next five or so years of his career.
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“You mitigate all the risk you can by surrounding yourself with great people. And then, let them do their work. Get out of the way. I know I’m good. I know Amanda Peet’s really good. I know Olivia Munn’s really good,” he says of his costars. “Now, I’ve had this experience, I’m sure you have too: You sit there and you stare at the fucking screen, and you go, I can watch literally anything right now on demand whenever I want and I can’t come up with something I want to watch. It’s overwhelming, right? So that’s out of your control. Marketing, will people be able to find it? Do enough people have AppleTV+? Who knows.”
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I just wanted to work,” Hamm reflects. “I knew it would be unlikely to have another experience like Mad Men. Because it was culturally defining, it was a moment in time. Everything kind of lined up for that show to be what it was at the time it was. And I was okay with that. Some people don’t even get the one. So I got one. I got all the awards I needed. [After it ended] I was like, ‘I’m good.’ I just want to work with people I find compelling. And I hope that I get to do stuff that other people like. But the only real barometer is that I like it. People were like, You should do this. You should do that. Why don’t you do this one? Because it doesn’t do it for me. I’ll go do a dumb comedy, or I’ll do three episodes of this show, or that show, or whatever.”
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Hamm confirms that David Fincher reached out to him to play the part that eventually went to Ben Affleck. “I had gone in and met with Fox,” Hamm says, “and they said ‘We really want you for this. But David won’t engage unless he knows that you’re available.’ And I said, ‘Okay, let me work on that.’ Called Lionsgate, said, Hey, can we move some things around? I have this opportunity. They’re like, Absolutely. It sounds amazing. Called AMC: Yeah, for sure. Then I called the guy that ran the show, Matthew [Weiner], and he said, ‘We can’t really shoot around you.’ I was like, Yeah, I know. I’m aware. But can we maybe.… And for whatever reason, they couldn’t make it work. So it was a missed opportunity. I was very happy for [Ben]. He was amazing in the film. But yeah, that was one of those things where I’m like, I wish that would’ve worked out.”
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eventually taking the piss out of the where-has-Jon-Hamm-been storyline in 2022, with a viral AppleTV+ ad that found him bored on his couch, looking at all the great TV shows existing without him.
“But now I feel like I played the long game,” he says, “and I got to this place. It’s like, now, my phone doesn’t stop ringing. It’s good.”
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I’m much better at taking care of myself,” Hamm says, admitting that this was not the case during the Draper years. (In 2015, Hamm completed in-patient rehab treatment for alcohol abuse.)
“What happens is you get pulled in 52 different directions,” he says, “especially doing something like Mad Men, which was such a big moment culturally. ‘You gotta do Jimmy Fallon. You got to do this one, you got to do that one.’ There was a three-week stretch where I shot Monday through Friday on Mad Men. The weekend was Bridesmaids. Then Monday through Friday on Mad Men. The next weekend was reshoots on The Town and Bridesmaids. And then the following week was Monday through Friday on Mad Men. It was 22 days in a row, no day off, not a weekend off, nothing. And I remember going, I don’t know how I’m going to do this. And just remember saying to myself, Just concentrate on today. Look down, look up, okay, Monday’s over. Now that one’s done. Cross it off. Ten pages of dialogue in my head every day. Coming into Bridesmaids, where they’ve [already] been going for two months. Reshoots on The Town, talking with Ben, going back in time to be like, Okay, what was I doing?”
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Just reflecting on that period seemed to give Hamm a shudder. “It’s like when you’re going through college, you’ve got all that work at the end of the semester. Then you get sick. Then you go home for Christmas and you want to sleep for two weeks.” Hamm says these days he prioritizes the mental reset more than he did before, looking to physical exercise between shooting days and getaways after he wraps. “Definitely, my wife and I now, whenever we finish a project, it’s like, let’s take the time. It doesn’t have to be lavish, or expensive, or three-weeks long. Let’s just go somewhere and chill and check in with each other, make sure that we’re still on the same page. That’s the kind of stuff that I’m talking about learning and doing better.”
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“Part of 50 is, it’s a good time to check in with [yourself]. I’m a big believer in therapy. I’m in therapy right after this, in fact,” he says. “But there is something about that, contextualizing your life, because if you’re doing it right, you should be in a pretty good place by 50. It’s supercomfortable, confident. That all comes out in my work too. I mean, I think that’s a big reason why I’m having this kind of moment now, too, is whatever I’m putting out is coming from a place of feeling very good about myself and feeling very good about what I do. Not trying to be thirsty, or like, I got to do this, then I can do this, and I can do that.” You see it a lot of [actors] being like, I need to get my version of whatever the fuck. No you don’t. Just do your thing. That’s how some people’s brains work. Mine doesn’t. I mean, I’ve been doing this job for a long time, and if I look back, I don’t have regrets.”
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This June will make two years since their wedding. “It’s been great,” Hamm says of married life. “We were together for a few years before we got married, so we’re comfortable with each other. But getting married is a big step. It’s like anything else—if you’re in it to win it, if you want it, which I do, then that makes it easier.”
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Still, he’s not looking back on it wistfully. “I love thinking about that time of my life. I’m glad that it’s over. Very much glad that I’ve grown up, and aged. And I love being 50. I love everything about right now. But it’s nice to have that as a time capsule because, man, that was a fun decade. I worked my ass off. I’m proud of that work.”
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“It has been 10 years since Mad Men went off the air. And then you go, Shit,” he says. “First of all, it’s hard to get a TV show made. It really is. So many things have to come together at the right time. It’s even harder to make it a hit. It’s even harder to get the second season. It’s even harder to get the traction, and the nominations, and the awards, and all the things that come with it. So you’ve got to really love what you’re doing—I do. But also, I’ve certainly been around long enough that my presence is value added for a lot of that. Not just from the studio or the network or whatever, to make it, but to actually draw an audience. People are like, I like that dude. I look good on a billboard, man.”
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Jon Hamm was sitting courtside for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks. During the second quarter, he got involved in the action as he caught a ball that Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton was trying to grab.
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Fox's Grimsburg with Jon Hamm on series, renewals
Hamm joins us to talk Fox's animated comedy, season renewals, guest stars, having the show amongst his many TV series.
Mr Hamm on the cover of the L'officiel French....
Mr and Mrs Hamm were at the premiere of The Phoenician Scheme
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Mr and Mrs Hamm were at a party......
at The Mercer Hotel, the subterranean lounge known as (Sub)Mercer played host to Cassandra Grey of Violet Grey's latest milestone: the launch of its new fragrance line, Madame Grey, and the brand’s arrival in New York.
