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Harry Jowsey: I have to ask you, why did you make the decision to switch up the cast? There we go.
Lisa Vanderpump: Because their story was told. Some of them didn’t want to film with each other. I was fed up with talking to their assistants. You know what I mean? It was time, but they were great. I loved them all and I still love them. Some of them aren’t as sweet and nice as they could be, but I do. I love the experience and I feel responsible for dragging them into this domain, so to speak. So, there’s a deep affection for them, but it was now time to go back to the restaurant, back to the nucleus, back to the dynamic that made the show a success in the first place of people working together behind the scenes and what that entails. I remember Jon Hamm coming up to me and he said, and I think he’s iconic. Oh, his penis has its own Instagram, doesn’t it?
Harry Jowsey: Does it?
Lisa Vanderpump: Doesn’t it? There was talk about that. That’s not why I was talking to him. He came up to me and he said, “Lisa, I love your show ‘Vanderpump Rules.’” And he said, “It’s so accurate. It’s like a real restaurant.” I said, “Well, it is a real restaurant, Jon.”
The acting bug
I’ve been acting since I was five. I love it. I’ve always enjoyed the process of creating a character and bringing storytelling to life. I got a scholarship to study acting at the University of Missouri and I’ve been working as a professional since my mid-20s. It’s the one thing that people keep telling me I’m good at, so I continue to do it.
Leading by icon
It’s been cool being a part of the Pixar family. Mayor Jerry is a good guy who gets into tricky situations, but he learns from the consequences of his actions – a quality I wish some of our leaders would exhibit a little more.
Globetrotter
I recorded Hoppers in Calgary, Canada, New York and LA. They find a recording studio wherever you are and do a session there. You can go in your sweatpants and bare feet if you want. It’s a very controlled environment. The directors are usually there in person or online. The session can be 20 minutes or two hours.
In the booth
You want to warm up your voice and make sure you’re not tired or stressed. You have to protect your voice. If you’re screaming for a scene or doing anything super strenuous, you have to be very mindful that you don’t become hoarse.
Camera ready
There’s always a camera running in the recording booth. They film you saying the lines and capture your physicality, particularly how your face is moving. They animate to the person performing the role, so you start to see the actor in the animation. I love that I was able to bring my personality to it.
Set free
It takes years to make an animated movie, with artists working around the clock. Voice work is different to being on set where you’re wearing a costume. This is more in the world of your imagination, and you’re only limited by the crazy story you want to tell. If you can think it up, they’ll draw it. I find it fascinating.
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“It's like Coop getting a best friend and a frenemy and a boyfriend and all of these things at once,” Hamm tells Esquire for this exclusive new look at Your Friends & Neighbors’ new season. “It's filling several voids in his life, whether he wants them to be filled or not."
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Coop doesn’t share the same feeling. “He's back in the thrall of someone he does not want to be in the thrall of,” Hamm says.
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You could see the Coop/Ashe storyline as a play on the challenges of making new friends as a grown-up. “Part of it is just the playground that the show sets up,” Hamm says. “This neighbourhood is very small and if you are part of the neighbourhood, then you are part of the friend group whether you want to be or not. That's a big part of a lot of the conflict in the show, these relationships that are certainly not by choice, but by necessity or by proximity.”
Overall, Hamm says Coop confronts the same existential questions as most people. He just comes up with unusual (and illegal) answers for them. “What the show is trying to say is actually, ‘Wait, is that all there is?’” he says. “That might be a through-line to a lot of the work that I've done in my career, if you look at Mad Men as well. I think that's why people are responding to the show.”
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"We don't ever lose sight of the humor, whether it's intended or unintended, that the show brings us,” Hamm says. “So it was a tremendous thrill to shoot and super fun.” He and Marsden were both paramours of Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon once upon a time, but they have never been onscreen together before. “Jimmy is such a great guy and I‘ve wanted to work with him forever,” Hamm says. “We missed each other on 30 Rock, but we've definitely made up for it on this.”
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It’s a cautionary tale, but one with a dark sense of humor. “The overriding tone of the show is escapist, playing with this idea of this overprivileged, incredibly rich people behaving badly,” Hamm says, “which we seem to be stuck with in the 21st century America of now.”
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