https://aboutactorjonhamm.blogspot.fr/2017/07/july-2017-news-jon-hamm.html
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on set of Tag
Jon Hamm answers audience questions
actress Toni Collette
The new film Fun Mom Dinner, about four moms who attempt to bond over a night out, is “empowering” for mothers and young women, promises cast member Toni Collette. While speaking on Entertainment Weekly: The Show about the double standard of parent representations on screen, the actress also explained, “You would never go Jon Hamm and say, ‘So, in Mad Men, you play a dad who also works.’ It’s so imbalanced.”
In alkhe Food Talks series, we interview celebrities on their favorite Italian restaurants, wines, recipes… Because, at the end of the day, Hollywood people love Italian food just like anyone else!
He is a men’s style icon, a very famous actor—he was the dapper Don Draper in Mad Men for seven seasons—and he loves to cook. As was say in Italian, La classe non è acqua, that is, “class is not water.” Jon Hamm is handsome, cerebral, and sophisticated, but more importantly he loves Italian food.
We met him in Atlanta on the set of his last movie, Baby Driver..... Talking (Italian) Food with Jon Hamm
1. My favorite italian food. I love pasta with rich creamy sauces. My fav is penne with tomato vodka sauce, the one I make is deliziosa!
2. The best cities in Italy. I went to Capri, Ravello and Positano, which are all amazing. The seafood is great. I also like Tuscany and their fiorentina steak, a must-to-eat during an Italian vacation. Sicily has the best lemons and the very famous pasta alla Norma, their round and purple eggplant are simply the best! (cooked with Tina Turner in the background!).
3. Italian restaurants I like. I live in Los Angeles where I find a lot of good italian restaurants. I go to Madeo (risotto is a fav), Giorgio Baldi (ravioli), Pizzeria Mozza for the fancy pizzas, but if I have to follow your advice… will try Prova in West Hollywood and Desano if they are really good. Is it true? [Yes, it is Jon
4. Must do for a good meal. Shop everyday, you never know, maybe you can bump into a surprise. I prefer the European style of shopping for groceries, where people buy fresh and locally-sourced ingredients for the day, or maybe the next couple of days.
5. My best and my worst. I cannot bake, but I can grill anything. I’m very good when I can express my creativity, I can sautée or glaze sweet and savory food. ANYTHING!
6. What’s in my fridge right now. Apples, berries, avocado, peaches, yogurt, cheddar cheese, orange juice, many cans of ginger beer (which I love), and a pot roast that my neighbor made for me. Haven’t tried it yet!
http://www.foodiamo.com/italian-food-news/jon-hamm-6-questions/
TONIGHT SHOW with Jimmy Fallon
Friday, August 18: Guests include Jon Hamm, Kate Upton and a Life Hacks Expert. Show 729
Glenn Close and Patti LuPone were spotted out having a great time with each other after mending their decades-long feud. The pair was recently spotted sharing a drink at a table at theater hangout Bar Centrale.....The source says the two Broadway leading ladies “seemed quite chummy and were yukking it up.”
Andrew Rannells and Jon Hamm also joined them.
http://pagesix.com/2017/08/14/glenn-close-and-patti-lupone-bond-after-ending-feud/
As mentioned, Smith is a joy, her face acting as an exquisitely painted canvas of confusion, regret and love. There’s a frisson between her and Hamm, who inhabits a hologram with both an eerie confidence and an empathetic warmth, eager to become more human, acting as a sort of digital counsellor
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/15/marjorie-prime-review-lois-smith-jon-hamm
From an interview with director Michael Almereyda
“The casting began with Lois, the nucleus of the film. A friend of mine plays softball with Jon Hamm, so I was able to contact him, then Geena came aboard. I had worked with Tim on my very first film, before he was well-known, and I didn’t think he’d want to do it at first.....
on Tag set
interview
Baby Driver's Jon Hamm Shows It's Good To Be Bad, August 16, 2017
Jon Hamm’s “Walter Prime” virtual character from the film Marjorie Prime is now available via 8i's mobile augmented reality app. The company has released a collection of Hamm holograms in conjunction with the theatrical release of FilmRise and Passage Pictures’ Marjorie Prime, which made its world premiere at Sundance. Hamm, who plays a hologram in the film, appears as his “Walter Prime” character in a photorealistic holographic rendering available for free download in the Holo app in the App Store for iPhone and on the Google Play store for Android.
8i unveiled the hologram at Sundance, making Hamm the first actor at the festival to be turned into a lifelike 3D hologram for virtual and augmented reality. The app allows users to virtually meet “Walter Prime” as if they were located in the same room, with the ability to snap a selfie or record a video with the character.
The 3D hologram will be available for three months.
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Working with Jon Hamm was incredibly rewarding for 8i because for the first time we got to watch how our technology brought the performance of a world-class actor alive in volumetric video,” 8i CEO Steve Raymond said. “
Jon is an incredible talent and seeing him come alive as a hologram was an exciting milestone.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-hamms-marjorie-prime-hologram-launches-mobile
Face It Challenge with Jon Hamm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FivL35JQB90&feature=youtu.be&a
New York premiere of Marjorie Prime
Hamm about Lois Smith
Asked what he thinks is the key to Smith’s appeal and longevity, Hamm said, “I don’t know that it’s a formula, but I really think there’s something about the way she doesn’t make a big deal of it. She doesn’t present a diva aura — she’s just there and ready to do the work.”
Of how that unflappability helped her in “Marjorie Prime,” Hamm said: “The last thing you want to do is turn this into a sad meditation on death. And Lois didn’t do that at all. She tapped into a real sense of wonder at this new, weird thing.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-lois-smith-marjorie-prime-20170817
The Los Angeles bow of Gook from Samuel Goldwyn Films had the best per theater average among the weekend’s slew of new Specialty films. The Sundance fest title, directed by second-time feature director Justin Chon, grossed a combined $31K from two locations. Amazon Studios/IFC Films’ Crown Heights opened in three theaters to a decent $28K. Coming in with lower opening PTAs were Fox Searchlight’s Patti Cake$, which had an estimated $66K in 14 theaters as well as FilmRise’s Marjorie Prime with Lois Smith, Jon Hamm and Geena Davis at $24K in six locations
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FilmRise opened Marjorie Prime with six runs Friday. Starring Lois Smith, Jon Hamm and Geena Davis, the film took in $24K, averaging $4K. Directed by Michael Almereyda, the film is an awards hopeful, especially for 86 year-old Smith, who worked double time during the shoot, while also doing rehearsals for the stage version of Marjorie Prime in Manhattan. A national roll-out will follow in the coming weeks.
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Marjorie Prime (FilmRise) NEW [6 Theaters] Weekend $24,000, Average $4,000
http://deadline.com/2017/08/samuel-goldwyn-gook-ingrid-goes-west-specialty-box-office
Jon Hamm: The new direction of the career of the star of 'Mad Men'
In an interview with CLAUDIA, the actor speaks of emptiness after the end of the series that made him known, and of difficult periods, such as the early loss of the mother .....
Hamm is considered to be one of the nicest guys in Hollywood , the guy who spends more than an hour talking to reporters at parties where most actors do not stay for 20 minutes. It is one of those who shake hands and look in the eye. Sign that fame did not interfere with its natural spontaneity. "To be an actor, you have to have a hard shell. Just so not to connect so much to what they will talk about you, "he says.
On Tuesday night, Anna Wintour welcomed Federer, his wife, Mirka, and their friends to a small birthday celebration in downtown Manhattan at the Beekman’s cozy Augustine restaurant. As Champagne and oysters circulated, guests including Ralph Lauren; Public School’s Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne; Trevor Noah; Dominic West; Catherine FitzGerald; Annette de la Renta; Huma Abedin; Charlie Rose; Gus and Theo Wenner; Aerin Lauder; Eric Zinterhofer; Tory Burch; the Griffins; Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin; and Wendi Murdoch feted the birthday boy for his Slam triumphs in Oz and Wimbledon. Federer said that 2017 feels like a dream—and, despite a tweaked back that kept him out of Cincinnati’s Western & Southern Open last week, he’s ready for the U.S. Open, and the always-noisy nighttime crowds at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Later in the evening, Wintour gave a small toast to Federer, joking about her own tennis obsession and how many times she’s waited anxiously on every point of a Federer match. Then she asked her friend Hugh Jackman to lead the room in a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday,” as an elaborate cake wound its way to the champion of the hour. (Candles were extinguished quickly, like a first-round opponent.) Federer took the floor—and, with the composure of someone who’s given a lot of trophy-acceptance speeches in his career—thanked Wintour, Mirka, his loyal Team Federer, and the assembled guests for the birthday wishes, and again expressed surprise and joy at his surreal tennis revival.
actor Justin Chon
Why do you think it was so hard for you to finance Gook? It was hard, right?
So hard! No one wanted to make a film with two Korean-American male leads and a black female, and about the riots, and then have it be in black and white? But I knew there was an emotional core there that would resonate with people, so it was about convincing people who weren’t too far outside my circle to invest in increments of six- to nine-thousand dollars.
We did a Kickstarter and raised $56,000 to help with postproduction. And this last weekend, we had the highest per-screen average of all indie films! We beat Marjorie Prime with Jon Hamm! It’s like, dude, there’s an appetite for this! Everybody who told us no, it just shows that it’s time. It’s time! Take the risk!
http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/from-twilight-to-gook-how-justin-chon-found-his-voice.html
Although the film, adapted from Jordan Harrison’s play and directed by Michael Almereyda, is just a small indie project released by Film Rise, it has the goods to appeal to the Actors branch of the Academy as well as SAG, where the SAG Nominating Committee gave it a standing ovation Monday night when it screened for fellow actors
http://deadline.com/2017/08/the-prime-of-geena-davis-and-lois-smith-leads-to-awards-buzz
Capone discusses the strange, somber world of MARJORIE PRIME, with stars Jon Hamm & Lois Smith!!!
Capone: And the play won a Tony, too. And you were nominated
LS: Yes. It was a journey for all of us.
Jon Hamm: I remember hearing about that production. I never got the chance to see it. That’s the reason I read that book, too. I remember picking up that book. It was right around when I got to L.A., and I had nothing to do, I was fully unemployed, and I remember reading about that in the L.A. Times or The New York Times about the production, and I was like, “You know what? I don’t think I ever read that all the way through.” I either Cliff Notes it, or half-assed some paper about it, but I said, “I’m going to read this book.” And I bought it and read it and I loved it.
LS: It’s marvelous. We were all carrying a copy around at that time.
JH: It’s an amazing book, especially when you’re like unemployed in California.
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JH: I had not read the play, I was not familiar with the play, but I was familiar with Michael’s work, the filmmaker, and I found his films to be always challenging, in the best way that I can say that. And of course, I was familiar with Lois’s work. So I thought, “This is an interesting opportunity to do something a little outside of my comfort zone, a little curious in subject matter.” And if found the story compelling and the character exciting to be able to play, so it was a no-brainer for me. It’s interesting having done a lot of these [interviews] over the last couple of days, listening to everyone’s experience when they first got the project. Everyone seems to have felt that way, from myself to Geena to Tim. Everybody was just like, “Oh yeah, I’ll do that. This seems like a good one.”
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Capone: The story is open enough that I feel like whatever an audience member brings into it will be reflected in what they get from it. It’s about memory, about grieving and avoiding grieving. It works on a very broad landscape. You both get to play two versions of your characters as did Geena. Were there any rules that you had about movement or just how you played them slightly differently?
JH: The only real rule was that they don’t have a physical component to them, so they can’t be touched and they can’t pick things up. There’s no physical relationship. The rest of it, I don’t remember having any kind of lesson plan. It was like, bring to it what you think it is. And from my end, it’s a little bit different, because we’re introduced to my character as this thing, and only later do we see the actual person. So it was about representing this person, but a person that hasn’t moved off of neutral, hasn’t gone one way or other yet, he’s still on neutral, so it’s all incoming and very little outgoing other than parroting stories. So it was an interesting challenge, honestly. And when you start to realize what these things are in the film, I think that’s when it really starts to enrich the experience.
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Capone: I feel like when you’re in that prime mode, your voice is a little bit more soothing than it is when you’re just being Walter. Was that something you thought, “I have to be as comforting as I possible can.”
JH: For some version of that, sure. You never want to talk in like, “Bleep-blorp, I am a robot” voice, but I think that there is some version of, like I said, I think it’s mostly just about neutrality, being as neutral as you possibly can and then hearing and listening to the great information coming in.
Capone: I love that nothing is explained about the whole process and how it works.
JH: Yeah, there’s no manual, no montage, no assembly line. I think that’s what Michael does very well in this film. As a 45-year-old human being on the planet, I appreciate being allowed to make my own conclusions about things, especially in a theatrical or cinematic sensibility. I feel like it’s what we did with “Mad Men” in a lot of ways. I appreciate not being led along in a certain paint-by-numbers path. I feel like if the material is good and it’s well represented, and you’re saying something. As you said earlier, people are going to bring different things to this. Everyone’s had a relationship, everyone’s had loss, everyone’s had grief, everyone’s had a family, and I think that for me, it resonated so deeply, surprisingly too, because I gave it a chance.
Capone: The last thing I want to ask you is about the last scene with the three primes together. That scene made me very anxious for some reason. I’m like, “Am I supposed to be scared of what’s happening right now, that they’re learning from each other, and they have somehow activated themselves?” Because I did wonder for a lot of the film what happens when two of them are in the same room together. What do you want us thinking about after the last scene?
JH: I found it the opposite of anxious. I found it very comforting. I thought these people found the new definition of family, and they’re growing and they’re learning, and the idea of Walter maybe wanting to write music I found adorable. But I do think it’s supposed to be unsettling in some way, because you realize they look and act and seem just like the people that we’ve seen this whole movie.
LS: Except maybe by now a little more relaxed. In doing a play, there was such a difference in reaction to the end of the play. I know people who felt comforted, people who felt chilled and scared and worried.
JH: Again, that’s on purpose. I really do think that that’s a choice.
Capone: It also made me anxious when you corrected one of the other primes on a fact, because she had never learned that. And I just thought “Wow, they’re rewriting history.”
JH: But don’t we all do that? That’s kind of how it is.
Capone: I felt like we were looking at the beginnings of the our overlords [everyone laughs]. Well, it was so great to meet you both.
JH: Thanks, man.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/78403
There is something almost too perfect about the idea of casting Hamm as an unreal, unattainable specimen of manhood, and the actor rises to the challenge with the drollest, trickiest performance in this gorgeously acted movie. Walter Prime's compassion and curiosity are no less genuine for being programmed, and as he and Marjorie teasingly reminisce about the night he proposed, or about her past as a professional violinist, Hamm skillfully disguises every perfectly calculated response as a natural, spontaneous one.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-marjorie-prime-rev-0822-2017082
Even when Jon Hamm is at his most animated, there’s a certain stiff formality to his onscreen persona.He’s the American Michael Fassbender.
The casting of the handsome Hamm as a disturbingly calm and increasingly complex and “intelligent” hologram in “Marjorie Prime” is almost too perfect. Even though we know this is a dysfunctional family drama and not another “Alien” movie, Hamm
is so chillingly good as the imperturbable artificial being, we half-expect him to go rogue and start eliminating the humans in the name of his self-preservation.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/roeper-marjorie-prime-a-thoughtful-family-drama
Jon Hamm Is a Great Actor, So Why Can’t He Find Another Great Role?
August 28, ice-cream with Jack McBryer
