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Hamm was at London shoemaker George Cleverley’s “The British Are Coming” cocktail event on Wednesday (June 6) at The Sunset Tower in LA....
premiere of "Tag" at Regency Village Theatre on June 7, in Westwood, California
Jon Hamm on ‘Tag’ and Crashing a ‘Game of Thrones’ Viewing Party in Atlanta with Ed Helms
leaving his hotel
57. The Jon Hamm Episode | Hannibal Buress: Handsome Rambler
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Jon Hamm on being a 'king of cameos' and his journey to finding success as an actor
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Speaking to this newspaper in 2011 – while defiantly smoking on the balcony of a London hotel – Deneuve sounded like a swooning schoolgirl on the subject of Mad Men. “Don Draper! Jon Hamm! Now that’s what a man is supposed to look like.”
“That’s incredible,” says Hamm, when I inform him about his celebrity admirer. “Bonkers! Who would have thought it? I’m just some guy from Missouri.”
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He’s happy to have been a late bloomer: “Who knows what I would have been like if I had been famous at 20?” he says. “I know other people that really struggle with being in the public eye. And I struggle with it. It’s a tremendously challenging life in some ways. Having people say things about you that aren’t true or people making assumptions about you. Those things can be difficult. I’ve met Saoirse Ronan. She’s been famous since she was 12 and I’ve no idea how she’s the well-adjusted person that she is. She’s my hero. I have nothing but respect.”
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“There’s some quality I have that resonates with people,” he says. “I don’t know if that’s endemic to how I grew up. I just know that this is the one thing I’ve done in my life that I kept getting compliments for and that people encouraged me to keep doing. I was raised by a single mom so it was very much me and my own thoughts a lot of the time. I always had a very active imagination and was encouraged from a very young age to sing out. I’ve never been shy about expressing my opinion or standing in front of people. I had great teachers and I was encouraged at every step.”
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“I never got to despondency because I always had just enough affirmation to keep me going,” says Hamm. “I never felt like Sisyphus pushing a rock up an impossible incline.”
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He’s happy to have been a late bloomer: “Who knows what I would have been like if I had been famous at 20?” he says. “I know other people that really struggle with being in the public eye. And I struggle with it. It’s a tremendously challenging life in some ways. Having people say things about you that aren’t true or people making assumptions about you. Those things can be difficult. I’ve met Saoirse Ronan. She’s been famous since she was 12 and I’ve no idea how she’s the well-adjusted person that she is. She’s my hero. I have nothing but respect.”
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“There’s some quality I have that resonates with people,” he says. “I don’t know if that’s endemic to how I grew up. I just know that this is the one thing I’ve done in my life that I kept getting compliments for and that people encouraged me to keep doing. I was raised by a single mom so it was very much me and my own thoughts a lot of the time. I always had a very active imagination and was encouraged from a very young age to sing out. I’ve never been shy about expressing my opinion or standing in front of people. I had great teachers and I was encouraged at every step.”
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“I never got to despondency because I always had just enough affirmation to keep me going,” says Hamm. “I never felt like Sisyphus pushing a rock up an impossible incline.”
Post-Mad Men, many Hamm watchers have wondered about his career. “Jon Hamm Is a Great Actor, So Why Can’t He Find Another Great Role?” asked a Variety headline last year.
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“I just know that I have wildly disparate interests and tastes,” he says “I’m fortunate just to be in the room and be considered for the things that I am. You just pinch yourself and think ‘wow’.”
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“I just know that I have wildly disparate interests and tastes,” he says “I’m fortunate just to be in the room and be considered for the things that I am. You just pinch yourself and think ‘wow’.”
He’s also game for larger ensembles, including Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, the incoming Bad Times at the El Royale, and Tag, a new knockabout comedy starring Hamm, Ed Helms, Jeremy Renner, Jake Johnson, Annabelle Wallis, Hannibal Buress, Isla Fisher, Rashida Jones, and Leslie Bibb.
“I read the article the movie is based on first, long before I read the script,” says Hamm. “And I was like, ‘This is a really cool story’, And I came away from it thinking like, ‘I want to hang out with those guys’. The article opened like the film does, with somebody jumping out on this high-powered mid-town executive. There’s nothing funnier than seeing a grown-ass man in a suit playing this ridiculous game. There’s an infectious joy about it. I loved the idea of real people physically connecting and that it keeps them bonded.”
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Hamm has proved his comic chops before, working on 30 Rock, The Sarah Silverman Show, and SpongeBob SquarePants. Tag required new levels of goofiness and dog-piling.
It was a good group for dog-piling and chasing, he says. “I had a blast. I’ve known a lot of these guys before. I worked with Renner on The Town and with Isla. But I also knew Ed and Hannibal and Jake through various social connections around the way and I knew that they were all kindred spirits.”
The physicality of the game at the heart of the film dovetailed with Hamm’s own distaste for social media.
“I don’t know how people do it,” he says. “It’s just not part of my vocabulary. I know there is a whole generation now that thinks in likes and clicks. That’s part of the job of being an actor now. It’s part of the business model and part of getting a movie out there. But it’s a virtual world that I don’t engage with or understand.”
In the days before I interview Hamm, I revisit Mad Men, a show powered by rampant misogyny, constant philandering, and secretary wrangling. The very first episode sees Hamm’s Don Draper tell an unhappy female client that he “won’t let a woman talk to him this way”. In fact, instead of seeing the Catherine Deneuve film in season four, Draper opts for Godzilla and dinner and booze with call girls. Part of the show’s appeal was the inappropriateness of drinking scotch for breakfast and smoking in restaurants. But I’m still not sure it would have looked the same, or made the cultural impact that it did, in the post ‘Me Too’ era.
“I think that’s probably right,” says Hamm. “Me too and those movements are still very new so we don’t really know where we are headed. I mean obviously these are great, welcome things because they’re dealing with problems that have been around for a long time in the industry. But that might have made a lot of stuff in Mad Men more difficult.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/jon-hamm-interview-life-after-mad-men-1.3537512
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/jon-hamm-interview-life-after-mad-men-1.3537512
Sixty Seconds with Jon Hamm
Your new movie, Tag, is based on a real story about a group of grown-ups who play the children’s game once every year. How does that translate into a film?
It’s like an absurd action movie. Instead of running around trying to kill each other, they’re running around literally just trying to touch one another. But what really comes across is their friendship. They have this 40-year-plus friendship — they’re lovable goofballs and that really comes across in the film. Some people are in a bowling league. Some people collect trains. This is what these guys do! It’s sort of adorable.
Do you still get together with your old friends?
I have a group of friends I’ve known since I was 12 who I’m still really good friends with. We last got together for this hockey game in St Louis and we all ended up at my friend’s parents’ house. And his mom just started crying. She was like, ‘This reminds me so much of you guys as kids.’ And we looked around and we were all sitting around in the same seats, in the same position, talking about the same things. It was very sweet.
Do you get nostalgic for your childhood years?
My childhood wasn’t the greatest. I lost my mom at a very young age. I have lovely memories of certain things but I’m not much of a look-backer.
Your co-star Jeremy Renner broke both arms on the set of Tag, right?
Oh yeah! Jeremy has gone through six Avengers movies and never been injured and three days on a comedy and he breaks both his arms! But he was an absolute champ. He was back on the set the same day. He had a removable cast and he set the greatest example — ‘let’s make a movie, here we go!’ He’s an impressive dude!
Have you ever got injured on set?
I injured myself on the set of Mad Men twice, actually. A piece of the set fell and hit me on the head and I had eight stitches. I came back to work the same day! And then filming the flashback sequence where Dick Whitman becomes Don Draper in Korea, there was an explosion and I had to jump and I broke my hand because I landed on it funny.
Is it nice to explore your comedic side, as you do in Tag?
I’m incredibly lucky to have credibility on both sides of the aisle. I got known as Don Draper, so everybody wanted to cast me as this brooding, strong silent type, which is fine. Except that’s my day job, that’s what I do all the time.
You even popped up in the UK in Toast Of London. As an actor yourself, were you a fan of that show?
Matt Berry’s comedy and sensibility is so funny to me and that character is so ridiculous, it just makes me laugh from the purest part of my heart. I do a lot of voiceover work, so I’m constantly thinking of Clem Fandango. That poor guy [Shazad Latif, who plays him] must get that quote [‘Yes I can hear you, Clem Fandango!’] thrown at him all the time!
Where is home for you now?
LA. I don’t love going out in public. It’s increasingly more a chore because everybody is essentially carrying a camera and a recorder around with them at all times. You go out to dinner and people are surreptitiously taking your photo and it’s a drag.
Do you confront them about it?
If I see somebody taking my picture I’ll ask them kindly: ‘Please don’t take my picture’. And they’ll say they weren’t. Whatever… So I like being in the house. But I live really close to Griffith Park and I like being out in nature.
So fame didn’t change when Mad Men finished?
No. Fortunately, Don Draper is an indelible character and I got the good fortune to play him for the better part of a decade. I think that’s still in people’s minds and I work really steadily. Am I as famous as I was as Don Draper? Probably not. I don’t think it is necessarily a bad thing.
No — I don’t dress in 1960s clothes! I have a lot more clothes now because in that weird, ironic way, the more you don’t need something, the more they give it to you. I probably wore the same eight pairs of jeans for the first 15 years I was in LA and now I have… whatever, 15 tuxedos. I just give it all away. How many clothes does one person need?
Is it true that in your early years, you made a five-year plan to succeed as an actor or quit?
Oh yeah… I thought, ‘If the presidential administration can get something done in four years, that’s plenty of time.’ I just didn’t want to be that guy who was constantly chasing something that probably wasn’t going to happen.
https://www.metro.news/sixty-seconds-with-jon-hamm/1116012/
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Jeff Bridges, Dakota Johnson & Jon Hamm BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE
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Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson Talk 'Bad Times At The El Royale' | EXTENDED
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BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE Dakota Johnson & Jon Hamm Interview
