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Jon Hamm, 55: ‘Aging Is Fun. I’ve Earned It’
You’ve had some incredible opportunities since Mad Men, but Your Friends & Neighbors is your first leading role. What made you say, “OK, this is it”?
I had met with [show creator] Jonathan [Tropper]. I was a fan of his work. He had this rough idea of this guy who lives in this world and something happens where he loses his source of income. It was a compelling first draft. Then we kind of agreed he would go away and write a script and … we would see if we wanted to do it together. And he wrote the pilot, and by the end of the first scene I was hooked.
What hooked you?
I just thought it was a great role for me. It had a lot of places to go from a narrative standpoint. The characters were well drawn and compelling. And we decided to take our journey together. And here we are, Season 2. We’re about to start shooting Season 3. The story is still very compelling to me and, I think, to the audience as well.
What do you think Coop would say to Don Draper, and vice versa?
There’s a lot of shared DNA between the two characters. There’s a competency there in both of their jobs, but also kind of an unfulfilled quality to what looks like, from the outside viewer, material success. One of the early episodes of Mad Men ends with the song “Is That All There Is?” That could be Coop’s theme song, or at least the theme song to Westmont Village [the setting of Your Friends & Neighbors], because that’s certainly one of the themes that we drill down on the show.
You recently turned 55. What’s it like aging in the entertainment industry?
It feels fine. I get to work with some of the greatest people in my business these days, and I’m very fortunate, whether it’s Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon [The Morning Show], or Noah Hawley [Fargo], or Amanda Peet [who plays his ex-wife, Mel, on Your Friends & Neighbors], or Tom Cruise [Top Gun: Maverick], Billy Bob Thornton [Landman]. The list goes on and on. I’m incredibly fortunate. I feel great, relatively speaking. After 50, waking up is a bonus. Waking up pain-free is a real bonus. So it’s just about enjoying yourself. I’m very lucky. I get to do what I’ve always wanted to do at, I think, the highest level. I still appreciate it every day. I still love going to work. So for me, aging is fun, honestly. I’ve enjoyed it. I’ve earned it. I guess I should say that. That’s really what it is. I’m not regretful or angry at it at all. If you made it this far, you’re doing something right.
On talk shows, I heard you call yourself a “late bloomer.” What’s that about?
I’ve always been a half a generation behind all my friends in everything. Whether it’s getting married [to actress Anna Osceola in June 2023], or getting wealthy, or finding my way. I’ve always been on the opposite end of wherever my friends were. It’s just how I feel in the moment. I’ve always been very fortunate to maintain a pretty eyes-wide-open presence in my life. Understanding that it’s hopefully going to continue to grow in my career, in my personal life as well, and it has so far. I’ve been very, very fortunate in that aspect.
Did you have a backup plan?
I gave myself until I was 30 years old. I moved out to L.A. when I was 25. I thought anything that’s going to happen can happen in a five-year span. I ended up turning 30 on the set of my first movie. It was the film We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott, Greg Kinnear and Barry Pepper. A tremendous cast, and I learned a lot. By that time I was paying my bills from making money as an actor, and I made my goal.
What’s been the best thing about getting older?
There are a couple of great things. If you’re doing it right, you have a much more evolved sense of not worrying about things too much. The biggest lesson is you kind of let things slide a little. You don’t take everything so seriously. Or you’re able to kind of rank things a little more and understand that certain things need to be taken seriously, but other things you can let slide. I guess that’s maturity. I guess that’s arriving at a place in your life that you’re comfortable — it’s the old fable about the mouse that just kept running in cream and churned the whole thing into butter. I don’t need to run that fast anymore. I’m comfortable walking with purpose.
Was there someone along the way who gave you some good advice?
I’ve had tremendous advice over the course of my life. Unfortunately I lost my parents, both, before I turned 20, but I had some other folks in my life who were able to remind me that yes, sometimes bad things happen, but if you let those things define you then you’re going to end up wallowing in those things. There’s always somebody with a sadder story than you. I think that that is a good lesson to learn, especially if you have trauma or tragedy that happens early in your life. If you’re going to just focus on that, you’re going to be focusing on the wrong thing. Life is about growing and experiencing new things. Life is about the future, not about the past.
What was your first splurge when you started making a real living acting?
My first splurge was a car. I remember I was 30 years old when I had my first car that I knew for 100 percent it was going to start. That was a very new experience for me. All the gauges worked, and it had air-conditioning. It was a Volkswagen Jetta. That was the first splurge I ever had. That, and paying off my college loans.
You mentioned all these talented people you’ve worked with. Is there somebody that you are still hoping to work with?
There are still tremendous people out there making movies. And the list grows every day. It was a wonderful awards season. We saw Paul Thomas Anderson finally win. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan. I remember meeting Michael B. when he was on Friday Night Lights. I knew he was fantastically talented. It’s great to see people like that go on and win the whole thing. Once I saw Sinners I knew he had a great shot at it. He really deserves it. But there are tons of people out there I’d still love to work with. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to.
Coop spends a lot of time on the couch watching old movies. Do you have a movie that you could watch over and over again?
I’ve got a million of them. I most recently had Fast Times at Ridgemont High on. It’s a great film. Cameron Crowe. I just read Cameron Crowe’s autobiography. It was fantastic. It’s called The Uncool. There are a million movies that I could go back to. I’m a member of The Criterion Channel. I look at that every day. It’s great. We live in a pretty great time if you’re a movie buff. You’ve got all the movies in the world a click away
I can’t end without asking you about those Olympic hockey team promos you did for NBC. What a great gig. How did that happen?
I have a good relationship with a lot of people in the sports world, mostly because I’m a big fan of sports, and I’ve made myself available for things like that in the past. I love the Olympics. It’s one of the greatest sporting events of all time.
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Jon Hamm Knows the Secret to a Happy Marriage
.... shares what he’s learned about maintaining a loving relationship long-term
The world of Your Friends & Neighbors is built on deception. Is it ever okay to lie in real life?
Sure. I think we all find ourselves in those situations where we have to bend the truth to make something more palatable. I mean, I was a teacher, man. You gotta pick your battles. You can massage the truth to make people feel a little bit better. Because, of course, we all knew that kid in college who was like, “I’m just a truth-teller, man!” No, you’re just a dick.
Coop has an interesting relationship with marriage. What has marriage taught you?
It’s a new set of skills, mostly communication. Having come out of a long relationship that was not a marriage, then being single and figuring out life in my late 40s, and then being in a relationship again and what that all means—compromise and communication and all the things that you have to relearn, or reteach yourself—it doesn’t come overnight. It’s a practice that you have to get better at. It doesn’t come without mistakes and failures, but it’s based on love and a willingness to say, ‘I’ve gotta be able to do better than this, so I need to figure out how I’ve been less-than and work on it.’ And that’s going to therapy and couples therapy, asking, ‘Is it me, is it them, or is it us?’ And it gets better.
What percentage of the time are women right?
I think they’re right exactly the same percentage of the time that men are. It’s not a competition. They’re right when they’re right and they’re wrong when they’re wrong. And your job, as a member of a couple or a partnership, is to remind the other person that two things can be true sometimes, and that we’re all trying to get through as best we can.
Is it nice to not have to date anymore?
God, with all the apps and all the shit, which I never engaged with even when I was single, it’s pretty bleak. It’s just another indictment of social media. It feels transactional. It feels like it highlights the wrong part of dating and meeting people. I’m looking at a fucking picture and deciding whether they’re worthwhile? It just feels a little dark. I was never really good at dating anyway, so I’m glad to not be out in the world, as it were.
What female singer do you always want to hear?
Sinéad O’Connor’s amazing. I find her voice haunting, soothing, and inspiring all at the same time. And until Stranger Things ruined Kate Bush, I listened to a lot of Kate Bush. And I really like this band called Rilo Kiley. Jenny Lewis is the frontwoman. I’ve got a couple of friends in that band.
If you could star in any remake, what would it be?
Die Hard. How cool would that be? I was raised on ’80s action movies. That stuff is my love language.
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Mr Hamm about working with Mrs Hamm
"It was great to have my wife, Anna, come in and be a part of it," Hamm tells PEOPLE. "It's fun to go to work together. We get to bring the dog in as well sometimes, so that's nice. We save money on dog sitting."
Hamm says another unexpected perk of getting to work with Osceola, whom he married in 2023, is not needing "to have an hour long conversation on what I did at work."
"We can save all that time," he says. "It's great."
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Mr Hamm about Amanda Peet amid cancer diagnosis and death of parents
She had told me about her diagnosis sometime ago, and it’s a very, very tricky balance to strike,” the Mad Men star said.
Addressing the loss of her parents, Hamm shared that he too has lost his parents, although “much earlier in my life.”
“There’s never a good time to go through that. And obviously, she’s managing that as well as being a mom, and being a wife, and being a survivor on her own — all of that while maintaining a career and maintaining this high level of work that she’s doing is just tremendous,” he said.
The moment Peet told him the news, Hamm remembered being “as compassionate as I could be,” and telling her “if there’s anything she needs, I’m happy to be there for her.”
“I’ve known her and her family for some time, so my heart goes out to her,” he added, “and I’m happy that she’s healthy.”
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“finally got a chance to share a screen”
We've known each other for probably the better part of 20 years, maybe even more,” Hamm says...
“I'm trying to think back [to] when we first met each other. He's a little younger than me, but we were coming up at the same time and struggling and hustling and doing all the things you do when you're trying to get jobs,” the 55-year-old continues, adding that Marsden, 52, had “some pretty early success with X-Men and Cyclops.”
Hamm says he’s glad to finally work on a project with his old pal.
“So we were very, very fortunate that he could fit us into his schedule and he just knocks it out of the park this season,” , adding that he is “so very, very happy we finally got a chance to share a screen together.”
The experience, he says, “was just everything I hoped it would be.”
Marsden.....recalls his own favorite off-camera memories with Hamm, which he says is their long-running “fantasy football league.”
“We've been in a fantasy football league, wasting colossal amounts of time for several years now,” Marsden says. As for who is the more impressive league member, he avoids choosing — but applauds his friend’s skills.
“He's very good,” he says of Hamm. “He knows what he's doing. Some guys in the league don't know what they're doing.”
Adds the Paradise actor: “But it's all playful. As long as the trash talk is there, we're good.”
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Jon Hamm on YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS, MAD MEN, TOP GUN MAVERICK
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TV’s Perfectly-Flawed Leading Man: Jon Hamm Talks Season 2 of “Your Frie...
Before you read the script for the second season, what aspects of Coop were you most excited to explore?
It’s a good question, and I wish I had a better answer to it. All this crazy shit happens in this community in our first season, but it didn’t happen in a vacuum, right? So, the second season is about dealing with the repercussions, and those repercussions are just amplified by James [Marsden’s] character. But coming in, I didn’t really have any expectations. I thought I was in good hands with our showrunner, Jonathan Tropper. Honestly, it’s what I’ve done for most of my career. I’ve placed my faith in some pretty good writers, and it’s worked out for me so far. I don’t want to take the pen out of their hands. That’s not my job. I’m here for any thoughts or questions, but otherwise, just go crazy, and I’ll do my best to see it through.
You and the rest of the cast were in a unique position because the show got renewed for a second season before the first season even aired, which was the first time a streamer had ever done that. Did it alleviate the pressure of dropping the first season or raise the stakes?
I think it was a bit of both, honestly. It’s certainly a nice vote of confidence. The powers that be believed in the show so much just from what they’d seen in the rough cuts. And they trusted their instincts, rather than what usually happens, which is, “I’m gonna wait to tell you my opinion until I hear what everyone else thinks,” which is a real thing that people do in Hollywood. And it’s a ridiculous way to decide how you feel about anything, right?
Do you think it helps that the show has such a great elevator pitch? “Hedge fund manager gets fired and sustains himself by stealing from his ultra-wealthy friends” is a pretty juicy hook.
It’s true, but a good elevator pitch doesn’t necessarily make a great show. Think about The Sopranos. It’s probably the easiest elevator pitch in the world — “gangster goes to therapy” — but there are a million ways that the show could’ve gone off the rails. So, I heard the pitch, and I found it compelling. It felt like it would hit the culture in a meaningful way, and it has. All my evidence is anecdotal — but so many people from all backgrounds, from all walks of life, tell me that they love Coop and that the show strikes a chord. It’s not just rich white people, which tells me that it’s more than just a good hook.
It’s funny that there’s this cultural fascination with following these ultra-wealthy, ultra-inaccessible, entirely unrelatable characters and plotlines, from Industry to Succession to Your Friends & Neighbors. Why do we get so caught up in characters we see so little of ourselves in?
I would throw The White Lotus into that category, too. It’s true — the rubric of watching rich people behave badly. There’s something about the “Ha ha, look at these privileged assholes” of it all. But, at the same time, there’s this aspirational quality to it. “If I had that money, I’d do it all different” — you know what I mean? Plus, the stakes feel higher. It’s wildly dramatic. And then, despite our best efforts, we fall in love with the characters.
It’s the same things that make us so enamoured with sports. We can watch LeBron play and there’s no world in which we can really relate to it, but we get caught up in the narrative or the aspiration.
That’s why sports are so great. I happened to be in Winnipeg for game seven of the World Series, and I was in a bar with the Winnipeg Jets watching the game. It was supposed to be a Halloween party in the bar, and no one was even talking to each other. Everybody was locked on the TV.
Sports have played a pretty consistent role in each chapter of your life, from being a three-letter varsity athlete to a pretty rabid St. Louis sports fandom. What is it about sports that has kept them so constant in your life?
Sports were such a vital part of my upbringing. Being the child of a single parent, part of growing up was being raised with the kids in my neighbourhood. If it was summer, it was basketball. If it was spring, it was baseball. If it was fall, it was football. It was always present. I was a relatively poor kid, so we didn’t have all the gear. But we just made do. You know, bases were rocks, and bats were whatever we could find. And watching the pros, that was the lingua franca of being a kid in the ’70s and ’80s. It allowed us to all speak the same language.
Historically, there’s such a romance associated with baseball. What is it about the sport that evokes that for people?
There’s a lot. It’s such a team sport, at its core. There’s a rhythm of everyone working together, so it automatically engenders teamwork and friendship and a sense of community. And when you talk about rooting for a team, it amplifies everything.
I know you’ve gotten to know the St. Louis Blues team well. As a Cardinals fan, have you connected with the team at all?
My best friend growing up was a kid named John Simmons, and his dad, Ted, played for the Cardinals in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. So, I’m really close with the team. I’m very good friends with the DeWitt family [Cardinals owners]. I’m fourth-generation St. Louis, so my family’s been around a long time. I don’t care if it’s basketball or football or baseball or soccer — if it’s St. Louis, I’m all in.
You mentioned James Marsden earlier — the rapport between you two is so great this season. What new dynamics was he able to add in the season?
James is someone I’ve known for a long, long time, and he’s a great guy. We’ve been buds and just narrowly missed each other on 30 Rock as Liz Lemon’s love interests. But we’ve been around each other for a long time, and he just adds value to everything he does. We saw it on Jury Duty, and he had a great run on Paradise. We knew that bringing him in would be a perfect foil for someone like me because you’re really not sure who’s going to win that fight. He can hold his own, and he’s playing this Jay Gatsby role. You know, this mysterious new-money guy coming in, disrupting the social hierarchy.
Between Coop and your other television lead, Don Draper, you’ve spent a decade portraying men who are largely defined by their indulgence and greed and ego. In some ways, they’re cautionary tales. Over the years, have you picked up any life lessons?
I wouldn’t say I necessarily learned anything more from them than I would from reading a play or a great novel. Obviously, the reason we do all that stuff is to remind ourselves that we’re human, that we all have these flaws, and what it means to overcome those flaws. That’s the nature of any great story. Without showing too much of my English major, you could go all the way back to The Odyssey and see those same themes. Don is an incredibly well-crafted character. Matthew [Weiner] did an amazing job. I was lucky enough to play him for a long time, and it’s so fun to get another chance to do it in a more contemporary style with another guy who isn’t making great choices but is somehow still so compelling. Hey, maybe there’s something to be gleaned from that.
Is it just a lot more fun to play the bad guy?
A lot more fun. I mean, the guy who does everything right and is invulnerable? That’s boring. That’s why there’s been like 15 recent Batmen but only a couple Supermen.
No offence to David Corenswet, of course.
He was great! And by the way, I loved what they did with the new version. Also, James Gunn, another St. Louis guy.
Aside from James Marsden, a huge element of this season is the theme of ageing. It’s not just Coop, but it’s something his ex-wife is grappling with; their kids are going off to college, and, I don’t want to spoil anything, but there are definitely aspects of mortality to deal with. What do you think a weighty theme like that adds to the show?
Totally, mortality is such a big part of this season. Everyone is getting older and, with that, more decisions have to be made. Then, you wonder if you made the right decisions. Seeing those decisions percolate is so relatable. As you can see, my own grey hair can testify that mortality is something that, at a certain age, looking in the mirror makes you think about unavoidably. It’s just part of the day. And things that didn’t hurt in your 20s and 30s suddenly hurt. You can’t eat how you used to eat or drink how you used to drink. It comes for all of us.
With Coop’s kids, I don’t have children of my own, but I certainly was one once. The notion of moving on or flying the coop or leaving the nest — whatever metaphor you want to use — that’s part of life. That’s growing up. And some people do it a lot later. I was always half a generation behind all my friends. When everybody was getting married, I was single. When everybody was making money during the first half of their career, I was waiting tables. Sometimes, it just happens at a different time, for whatever reason. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I think as you get older, that’s what you realize.
That’s a pretty well-treaded part of your story — the “Jon Hamm got his big break late” narrative. But at this stage of your career, are you grateful it took a little longer to get here?
Oh, man. It’s a big question. I mean, I sure could’ve used the cheque a little earlier. But in all seriousness, I don’t know if I’d say I’m grateful for the timing. Everyone says, “You were an overnight success!” or whatever. But I was still a working actor before I got Mad Men. I wrote down “actor” on my taxes each year. Now, sometimes I made zero dollars as an actor, and sometimes I didn’t. But I always wrote it down. There are so many versions of this life, but the best version of it just happens how it happens. Really, I can’t imagine it coming together for me at a younger age.
I remember when I was a younger actor in Los Angeles. I was probably 27 or 28, auditioning for things but never getting them. But finally, I got down to the last round of whatever show I was auditioning for, and I was up against this young Australian kid. I thought, “Man, he’s really good.” Yeah, well, turns out it was Heath Ledger. He got the gig and went like this [points upward] and, you know, I went like this [points horizontally]. I’ve thought since: it’s not easy to be famous when you’re so young, as proven by so many other brilliant people. So, I just think, I’m happy that it happened. I’m happy that I got to play Don Draper, happy that my life worked out the way it has, grateful for the opportunities. But I can’t really look back and be grateful or regretful that something turned out a certain way or it didn’t. It is what it is. That way lies only disaster.
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Never Not Funny | Scott Aukerman, Jon Hamm, Sona Movsesian, and Mike Schmidt at #NNF20
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