Actor Jon Hamm

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Mr Hamm was at the CAA pre-Oscar party at The Living Room in L. A

Mr Hamm was a pre-Oscar party in Beverly Hills...

Mr Hamm...Oscar 2025...

March 10, Mr Hamm is 54 years old

Trailer of Your Friends & Neighbors

Hamm stars in and executive produces the series, which has already been renewed for a second season, ahead of its April 11 series debut.

... the series revolves around Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm), a hedge fund manager, who after being fired in disgrace, is still grappling with his recent divorce. He resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.

Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt and Donovan Colan also star.

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Hamm executive produces alongside Connie Tavel and Craig Gillespie. Gillespie also directs episodes the first two episodes.

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It’s also easy to picture Hamm being drawn to such a detailed portrait of one man. He is a frequent reader of biographies, he tells me on an afternoon in early February. He is calling from his office, and now he studies the contents of his bookshelf—60 percent fiction and 40 percent nonfiction, he estimates. He currently has three books in play, all biographies, and recently finished a new one of Lorne Michaels, whom he has known for years. “I didn’t really know anything about how he grew up, and he kind of deliberately plays a lot of things close to the vest,” Hamm says. But as he read about his friend’s upbringing, he was fascinated by how Michaels, the legend, began to take shape. “You start to see crumbs along the way of his life and his work.”....

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Landman, for instance, shines a light on the tension between Americans’ resentment of the ravages of the oil industry and our dependence on oil. “It’s not lost on these people that [oil] is in fact a finite resource,” he says. “It’s not lost on anybody that it is in some ways making the world harder and worse. It’s about: What do we do instead of it? And how can we do it in a way that is going to fulfill our needs? And I think that’s a fascinating point of view.”...

The things we own and the status we have, Coop finds, are ephemeral—viewers are reminded of this every time Coop’s fancy car’s accursed trunk pops open unbidden. “It does all feel like it could be very tenuous and, if you were a cynical person, very meaningless. So what does it really mean if it all could go away in a blink of an eye?” Hamm says. The question drives his character to begin stealing from his friends.

Hamm is quick to deepen a conversation, and to challenge his own ideas. As he describes the anti-materialism of Your Friends & Neighbors, he brings up the recent wildfires that devastated communities in Los Angeles. The fires were a lesson in how rapidly our circumstances can change, he says, but they were also proof that things, or the loss of things, can have tremendous weight. “There is some sort of meaning, obviously, to the things we acquire,” he says. “It’s just not necessarily the things that maybe we’re told are as meaningful as they seem to be. The value ascribed is not necessarily the value that an insurance company ascribed to them.”.....

It follows that Hamm is drawn to television that engages his whole brain—television you “absorb into your pores,” as he puts it. He does appreciate a passive viewing experience: he says he and his wife, actor Anna Osceola, often have Bobby Flay on while they’re cooking. (Though he has said nothing to disparage Flay, Hamm now launches into a firm defense of his oeuvre, from which, he says, he has learned a tremendous amount about cooking and restaurants.) But he is not particularly interested in acting in shows that are meant to be, or likely to be, passively viewed......

Hamm remembers reading Basket of Kisses, a blog that recapped each Mad Men episode. He would sometimes lurk on the site, reading the comments. “That’s where all the theories were, and people would engage with it. I fortunately never got into that [posting]. I would start reading the comments and it would start to get a little dicey and I would go: This is not healthy; I know this is not healthy and there’s no good way to engage with this that’s going to be productive. But, that said, I did read the recaps. I was fascinated by hearing what people had to say. And I think that was a new way to consume television, where you could, if not in real-time, in a relatively small time offset, have your feelings validated.”........

But mostly Hamm is suspicious of social media; he does not have any public social media, and he does not admit to any private accounts. “I was kind of grandfathered in, so I never had to really manage it,” he says. He notes that his wife, though at 36 is much younger than Hamm, feels the same way. He and Osceola have no drive to amass followers, and Hamm sees futility in building a presence on one platform when a new one will surely replace it in five years’ time. “We all know now what it really does, and what its true purpose is, which is to harvest and mine data on you and make it easier to sell whatever they want to sell you,” he says. “Everyone talks a big game about wanting their private lives to remain private, and yet every day people are opening all the doors to their homes and their lives. On purpose.”

After Mad Men, he spent thirty days in rehab: he went for many reasons, he says, “and they were my reasons, and they were not to be shared.” TMZ seized on the moment, printing a statement from Hamm’s team requesting privacy and sensitivity under the headline “Jon Hamm Completes Rehab Stint for Alcohol.” “There’s a reason Alcoholics Anonymous is meant to be anonymous, and there’s a reason HIPAA laws exist to protect people. But even so, that doesn’t account for the cravenness of people. And they know that there’s a market to sell that information,” Hamm says.

A nasty Daily Mail post, he says, “is not enough to really change anybody's life in a material way, except in a momentary way, but it’s enough to affect the person you’re selling out, and that’s the real sad part of it.”

Often celebrities will add a caveat when they are describing the invasions of the press and social media: they are not complaining, they realize they are so privileged, and they are so grateful for their fans. Hamm does not, not because he doesn’t feel privileged or grateful, but because he’s stating a fact: being a celebrity today can be emotionally arduous. “There’s literally nobody safe. If you are close to that machine, you will get chewed up at some point.”

As he sees it, there are two ways to live with that truth. You can eschew social media, as he has, leaving yourself vulnerable to whatever people write about you, with no platform on which to defend yourself should they get something wrong. “Or you can play the game. You can take control of your own thing,” he says. “But for me, I didn’t choose to be a social media manager. Obviously most people don’t really do their own social media, but I don’t want to hire anybody to do my social media. I don't want to be responsible for the person whom I hired to do my social media when they write the wrong thing or use the wrong pronoun or say the wrong name.”

“It’s very true. We watched it all happen. The iPhone came out in 2007, and that was the second year of Mad Men. And by the end of that year all of us went from flip phones to iPhones,” he recalls. Then Twitter rose up, and then Instagram. “I was very attracted to it at a certain point, when it was nascent and burgeoning and manageable. But then by the second or third year of all those apps it was insane, and it was worldwide, and it was instantaneous, and that terrified me.”

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Mr Hamm will host SNL in April

Mikey Madison, Jack Black and Jon Hamm will be the next hosts of “Saturday Night Live,”........

April 12 will mark Hamm’s fourth time leading “SNL,” having previously hosted in 2008 and twice in 2010, though he’s also made more than a dozen cameos on the show. Best known for starring as Don Draper in AMC’s “Mad Men,” he is also the star and executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Your Friends and Neighbors,” which premieres April 11.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news