Hamm joins the cast of Good Omens as the Archangel Gabriel, the primary messenger of God
The six-part television adaptation by BBC Studios of the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett is currently in production and will be launched by Amazon Prime Video in 2019, and shown at a later date on BBC Two.
Jon Hamm says: “I read Good Omens almost twenty years ago. I thought it was one of the funniest, coolest books I'd ever read. It was also, obviously, unfilmable. Two months ago Neil sent me the scripts, and I knew I had to be in it.”
The character of Gabriel has a fleeting role in the original novel but showrunner Neil Gaiman explains why he is being developed in the screenplay......"The leader of these angels is Gabriel. He is everything that Aziraphale isn't: he's tall, good-looking, charismatic and impeccably dressed. We were fortunate that Jon Hamm was available, given that he is already all of these things without even having to act. We were even more fortunate that he's a fan of the books and a remarkable actor.”
Good Omens was commissioned for Amazon Prime Video and for BBC Two....will launch globally on Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories in 2019
actor Stephen Moyer
How has this required you to use different muscles than your last series?
It's always interesting, one of the things I get to do that a lot of the others don't get to do is use an accent........For me, it's another part of the costume of the character so this is a very specific, different accent.
And so I go online and I listen to voices and I find a voice that I like and this one, very specifically, was Jon Hamm –- I like Jon's voice. So I went to YouTube and then found some voice recordings that he's done and I have them on my phone and I also have a dialect coach. And so I go to the dialect coach and I say "This is what I want to sound like. This is the place..." I then invent where he's from, somewhat around where Jon's from, and then I start creating it. And then it veers off and it becomes what it becomes.
Just 20 Descriptions of Jon Hamm’s Voice
1. When Jon Hamm says “Tatooine,” it sounds dirty, like you must immediately check to make sure the people to the right and left of you didn’t overhear what you and Jon Hamm are gonna be up to later.
2. Jon Hamm’s reading is full of pregnant pauses, the ones that make you feel like your day is a little longer, your heart a little fuller, like you really do have as many hours in a day as Beyoncé.
3. Jon Hamm’s voice sounds like mischief, like — and I hate to bring this up — Hans Zimmer’s Pirates of Carribean theme for Jack Sparrow, if that role weren’t being reproduced and bastardized in sequels ad infinitum.
4. Jon Hamm’s voice probably smells like pine and eucalyptus. Noir-style, like in a way you’d be attracted to if you grew up watching too many Humphrey Bogart movies.
5. The texture of Jon Hamm’s voice is leathery, like a lovingly worn-in Eames chair.
6. Jon Hamm’s voice has an undertone of arrogance — he’s better read than you, better dressed than you, better bred than you, but he’s willing to overlook it, just this once.
7. When Jon Hamm speaks, it sounds like he’s offering you endless options: What should he make for dinner tonight? “Is it pizza you want?” he says, lightly massaging the back of your neck. “Or should I do twice-baked potato?” Your kitchen is immaculate. This happens to be a Nancy Meyers movie. You’re welcome.
8. Jon Hamm kinda sounds like DMX’s voice, but only on that one DMX song “How’s It Goin’ Down.” Jon Hamm’s voice sounds like he’s been through some shit, but he’s smooth with it.
9. Jon Hamm’s voice just sounds so clean that when he sneers “dustball,” you will have an immediate need to buy the most luxurious Dyson vacuum on the market.
10. Jon Hamm’s voice is as satisfying as when your bed is covered in freshly washed sheets, still a little warm from the dryer.
11. “Mama Fett didn’t raise any fools,” Jon Hamm mentions offhand. But his tone is such that you immediately want to meet Mama Fett and spend time with her, so she can guide us out of these dark and perilous times.
12. Jon Hamm’s voice sounds like when you walk in your living room after a particularly grueling day of responding to emails and screening telemarketer’s calls. You kick off your shoes, and sit down on the couch. Ocean’s 12 is on TV.
13. Something about the baritone of Jon Hamm’s voice recalls the fantasy of talking back to your overbearing aunt. Not that you would — Hamm’s voice just conjures the daydream of disrespect.
14. Jon Hamm’s voice’s aesthetic is autumn. Not merely “fall,” but the rich mustards, deep Cabernet-colored suedes, and dark-wash denims of September through November.
15. “Flash, boom, three tiny ash piles,” Jon Hamm says at one point in this story. He’s so quick and nonchalant about it, like he’s Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, but in a deeper register.
16. Jon Hamm’s voice doesn’t sound like Obama is still in office, but it does sound like Donald Trump has been permanently banned from Twitter, and never again will you wake up to those freaking stupid early morning tweets.
17. You know when you run into that guy from that thing and you can see that he’s staring at you a little too long, trying to place you in his memory? Jon Hamm’s voice sounds like what it feels like to slyly grin and walk away, because sometimes you just don’t feel like saying hi.
18. Jon Hamm sounds like when Anne Hathaway says “oops” in the Dark Knight Rises, which is one of the most seductive and thrilling lines of dialogue in American cinema.
19. Jon Hamm’s laugh could con the devil out of delivering four more Avatar movies.
20. Jon Hamm’s voice sounds a little like Armie Hammer’s voice, but only if Armie Hammer’s voice wasn’t already dunked in honey.
The Only Times When It’s O.K. to Enter a Subway Car Before People Exit
• There is an empty seat and it’s right next to the love of your life.
• There is an empty seat and it’s right next to the Prime-Time Emmy Award-winning actor Jon Hamm.• Every single person exiting the subway car went to your high school and is personally responsible for that time you fell down the stairs at prom.
• Jon Hamm is the love of your life and you can do whatever you want because he will always fight for your honor.
• You just got a haircut and you need to brush by people to get the little trimmed hairs off your face and shirt.
• You are so universally loved that it’s become a burden and you need to generate some hate to balance it out.
• Body odor gives you an adrenaline rush and provides an acceptable, healthy substitute for hard drugs.
• You have never been loved and this is the closest you will ever get to receiving a hug. Also, one of the people is Jon Hamm and can you just imagine what a Hamm hug would be like?
• You are a time-traveller and are seeing a subway for the first time. You are preoccupied with the beauty of this man-made vehicular contraption, and also with the fact that you’re underground and the walls aren’t mud.
• You used to date Jon Hamm and he’s exiting the subway car and you need to stride past him, bumping shoulders in a passive-aggressive huff.
• You are a retired football player and you’re feeling nostalgic for running toward people who are rushing at you.
• You are a retired football player and you just want someone to notice you again.
• Your dog ran onto the subway and you must chase after it in a charming and apologetic manner because you are Jon Hamm.
• You are Jon Hamm’s dog and you can do whatever you want because he will always fight for your honor.
• You are an absolutely terrible person with no manners.
• You are Jon Hamm. You won an Emmy. You can do whatever you want.
Jon Hamm, Norah Jones are celebs at waterfront gala at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Just a few yards away from the outdoor public basketball courts with the best views in the city, a gala on Thursday night will celebrate the best and brightest — and most generous donors — who have helped build Brooklyn Bridge Park into what it is today.
The fifth annual Brooklyn Black Tie Ball and After Party, hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Jon Hamm and featuring a performance by nine-time Grammy-winner Norah Jones, will take place on Pier 2 and will include a cocktail reception on the promenade and a seated three-course meal.........
still in Spain...
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Emidio Tucci starts the new season and does it with a new image: Jon Hamm
A few days ago El Corte Inglés de Serrano organized a dinner to present this new collection and be able to meet in person the protagonist who will occupy advertising facades and who will remind us that man must bet on fashion.
We had dinner on the roof of the Mexican gastronomy and shared conversations with the protagonist. Here you leave some image, but you can see the rest of photos in the magazine HELLO !.
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?=en&sl=es&u=http://blog.hola.com/fionaferrer/2017/10/cena-con-jon-hamm.html&prev=searchWe had dinner on the roof of the Mexican gastronomy and shared conversations with the protagonist. Here you leave some image, but you can see the rest of photos in the magazine HELLO !.
Hamm was at the Brooklyn Black Tie Ball
...he helped raise $1.3 million for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, a gig he took out of friendship with James Wilson of Warburg Pincus, a park supporter and classmate of Hamm’s from John Burroughs School in St. Louis....
Bloomberg.com
It's been said that Brooklyn is the new Manhattan, but there are still plenty of long-running jokes about the differences between the two boroughs as well as their distinctive inhabitants. Even those who don’t consider themselves Brooklynites or Manhattanites—or even New Yorkers, for the matter—are well versed in the rivalry, which is always done in good fun. Take Jon Hamm, for example, who last night hosted the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s annual Brooklyn Black Tie Ball at Pier 2 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. “It’s a fundraiser for Brooklyn, so let’s get that guy famously from St. Louis,” he joked onstage before rattling off a few Brooklyn neighborhoods that are never confused with certain corners of Manhattan. “Is there an Upper East Side?” Hamm playfully continued. “I honestly don’t know that much about it, but I know one thing—that I’ve been coming here for over 20 years, some very good friends live in the neighborhood, and to see the transformation of what’s happened over the last few decades is truly astonishing, and that speaks to the work of the conservancy.”
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“From my perspective, one of the cooler, less-known things that the conservancy does is give free access to the green and environmental education to kids from public schools every day,” said Hamm....
https://www.vogue.com/article/brooklyn-bridge-park-conservancy-black-tie-ball-keri-russell......
“From my perspective, one of the cooler, less-known things that the conservancy does is give free access to the green and environmental education to kids from public schools every day,” said Hamm....
Men’ and Don Draper at New Yorker Festival
The actor reflected on the landmark 2007-2015 series and his performance as Don Draper in a wide-ranging Q&A Saturday night held as part of the New Yorker Festival.
Hamm told New Yorker articles editor Susan Morrison that the AMC drama was a transformational experience, personally and professionally.
“To have that kind of omnibus experience is once in a lifetime, if you’re lucky,” he said during the session held at SIR Stage37. “Navigating the success, what the show became. that was the trickiest part,” Hamm added.
Now that the series has ended, Hamm told Morrison, he’s looking to branch out.
“The fun of being an actor is getting to different things” after playing Don Draper for seven seasons. “It wasn’t that I wanted to react against and play the opposite, but I definitely wanted to do different things,” he said.
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“We didn’t have cable TV,” he said. “You had to like, read books and listen to albums and cassette tapes.” Hamm cited Spy magazine, Monty Python, and comedians including Bob Newhart, George Carlin, and Richard Pryor as inspirations. He even liked Cheech and Chong, adding ruefully, “My grandmother did not like that one. It literally had a car-sized joint on it.”
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Hamm was a jocular, appreciative interviewee, thanking each audience member for their questions and peppering his answers with little jokes. At some point, a weird emanated from somewhere in the audience. Hamm laughed. “I’ve never not laughed at a fart sound. Never have, never will.” When the audience laughed with some embarrassment, he added, “oh, I know it was the chair.”
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About “Mad Men,” Hamm said, “There was nothing like our show.” He credits “the advent of the iPhone, and blog culture, and recap culture” with aiding its success. “Nobody watched it” — at least at first — “but people loved to talk about it!”
“The real appeal of the show is that people saw some version of themselves — their mom, their dad, their kids, their job, their journey, their family — in the story of this man who is not what he says he is, but has made this life,” he said. Hamm added that he happened to be uniquely suited for the role.
“My dad had a similarity to Don Draper,” he said. “Some quality that I took and used.”
Hamm added, “I was a fan of advertising. I was a fan of commercials as a kid. I watched a lot of TV. I could do jingles and i could do slogans,” he said. He realized how much he knew when he started meeting actual advertising executives while working on the show.
Morrison asked him how he played the difference between Don and his alter-ego on the show, Dick Whitman. “Don had a different way of carrying himself,” Hamm said. “There was this performative aspect to Don, when he was in the office especially… that was very much a conscious decision.”
In contrast, “when (Dick) goes out to California and you see him with Anna — he’s not performative, he’s purely himself, and there’s a different physicality to it. That was on purpose.”
Hamm connected that artifice, obliquely, to the current commander-in-chief. “There are a few examples of people in current political culture who might have manufactured confidence… Oh, remember George W. Bush! Simpler days,” he said.
At the end, Morrison asked him if he wanted to join the trend of superhero films because Hamm is a known to be comic-book fan. “Never say never,” he said, adding that he’s glad the genre is finding its way away from darker narratives towards ones with a “sense of humor.” Plus, he joked, “they’re running out of dudes.” An audience member asked him what his favorite comic book series was, and his answer is a four-part series called “Elektra: Assassin.”
“And the reason I like it is because there’s a really good part in it for me,” he said, smiling
leaving SNL after party
actress Lois Smith
While Smith first met Jon Hamm shortly before production began, the chemistry between the actors was easily found. “We are so fortunate that Jon Hamm is playing Walter Prime, my younger husband,” Smith said. “I remember it was at the end of the first or second day of shooting and I said to Jon, ‘Have you got your head around it, that you and I are the parents of Geena Davis?’”
We hear Spielberg last week asked Redgrave for a copy of her first film, which had its own premiere on Sunday at the New York Film Festival.
In celebration, Redgrave’s son-in-law Liam Neeson and CAA power agent Chris Andrews held a VIP dinner at Atlantic Grill for guests including Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, James Earl Jones, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Miller and Griffin Dunne.http://pagesix.com/2017/10/09/how-vanessa-redgrave-helped-boost-steven-spielbergs-career/
Are Jon Hamm and Dakota Johnson just friends or is there a romance blossoming?
We’re told the genetically blessed actors were spotted drinking wine at Kingside in the Viceroy Central Park hotel on Thursday night after Hamm, 46, hosted the Brooklyn Black Tie Ball.
“They seemed to really be enjoying each other’s company,” a spy told us of their “low-key” night, adding that they were hanging out for about two hours.
It’s not the first time Hamm and Johnson, 28, have been spotted together. In April the pair were photographed together at Elton John’s 70th birthday party.
http://pagesix.com/2017/10/10/are-jon-hamm-and-dakota-johnson-dating/
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Kathleen Schaffer
I don't get starstruck. But at the premiere for The Handmaid's Tale," Jon Hamm arrived, presumably to support his Mad Men co-star Elisabeth Moss. "We just got giddy. I have to tell you, he's dreamy."
http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/caterer-to-the-stars-kathleen-schaffer-describes-what-celebrities-eat-8719508
Brad Anderson's political thriller Beirut, starring Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike, will hit theaters April 13 2018....Beirut — previously titled High Wire Act — centers on a top U.S. diplomat (Hamm) who leaves Lebanon in the 1970s after his wife is killed.
Hamm was the annual Casamigos Halloween Party, with a 1970s theme — Held at a venue-turned-discotheque on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip, the 500 guests included Hollywood's elite, industry tycoons, rockstars, athletes, and top influencers.
Amal Clooney, Kaia and Presley Gerber, DeAndre Jordan, Russell Simmons, Alessandra Ambrosio, Joanna Krupa, Seth MacFarlane, Jon Hamm, Adam Levine, David Spade, Isla Fisher, Sasha Baren Cohen, Molly Sims, Zedd, Adrien Brody, Derek Hough, Shannen Doherty, Kim Kardashian and more....
Amal Clooney, Kaia and Presley Gerber, DeAndre Jordan, Russell Simmons, Alessandra Ambrosio, Joanna Krupa, Seth MacFarlane, Jon Hamm, Adam Levine, David Spade, Isla Fisher, Sasha Baren Cohen, Molly Sims, Zedd, Adrien Brody, Derek Hough, Shannen Doherty, Kim Kardashian and more....
Richard Ayoade and Jon Hamm will be celebrating a very different Christmas this year.
In Travel Man Xmas, host Ayoade will be joined by the Hollywood actor as they head all the way to China.
The two will be enjoying a “faux festive” mini-break in Hong Kong, taking in the city’s sights, jumping on the trams and ferries and cable cars, and setting off on a food tour. No turkey allowed.
The two will sample “unrecognisable dishes”, according to Channel 4, which they’ll sample “in the interests of research and award-winning television”.
While in the city, the two “famous suit wearers” will get fully kitted out, taking advantage of Hong Kong’s 24 hour tailors who will create bespoke outfits. They’ll also get involved in Tai Chi as well as paper tearing, foot massage and fortune telling.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-11-08/jon-hamm-richard-ayoade-in-travel-man/
Oct 31, leaving Starbuck
