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Mr Hamm is filming Cargo in Calgary, he was at a Calgary Flames game and interviewed by SportNet.
Jon Hamm on his love for hockey and The StLouis Blues
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Mr Hamm was at the read table of F. Copola movie Megalopolis
"Look at what Francis Ford Coppola is doing right now. He’s making a $300 million movie that he just has wanted to make. I did a table read of it, I know how impossible this movie is to make. But he’s making it. And God bless him, that’s exactly what he should be doing.”
I was like, ‘I don’t know how he’s gonna make this movie,’” he said. “I sat at a table with Al Pacino, Shia LaBeouf, all these amazing actors. I thought ‘I don’t know know what this is gonna be, but I’m unbelievably happy to be here in this room on the Paramount lot where 45 years ago he made ‘The Godfather’ when Robert Evans was walking around. Like ‘okay, I’ll be part of this.’
When I read the script, I knew right out of the gate that Jon should do it,” Slattery says. “And I had his phone number. That definitely helps.” Hamm says, “Coulda skipped .”
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The two may be close, but they’re roughly 3,000 miles from each other on this early June afternoon. Hamm, 52, is Zooming from his office in Los Angeles, where a framed autographed bat and base from St. Louis Cardinals legend Stan Musial is proudly displayed in the background. “I have a footprint in New York but home is here and the dog is here,” Hamm says.
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that they’re speaking just days after another prestige NYC-set drama, Succession, ended its tenure on HBO and sparked a slew of “Best TV Show Ever” headlines.
That didn’t bother me,” Hamm says. “Sure, there is recency bias, and everyone is talking about it because it’s the thing to talk about, but it certainly didn’t negate my experience on Mad Men. The recognition and accolades we had were amazing. I don’t think we’ll ever see that again in our careers.” Slattery picks up on the comment: “I did watch Succession and get a pang of It would be fun to be on that show. Because that’s what we’re all looking for all the time!”
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After the show wrapped, Hamm and Slattery—the former refers to his pal as “Mr. Slattery,” “Slatty” and “Johnny” throughout the interview—stayed tight. “We’ve maintained a friendship in a way that I don’t have with anybody else in the cast,” Hamm says. “Maybe it’s because we have a lot in common. Maybe it’s because we’re in the same town an awful lot. Or we just like each other and like working together.
First Hamm asked Slattery to pop up in the 2022 comedy Confess, Fletch. “I thought he’d like the part and could come to work for a few days and tell a few jokes,” he says. “And we had a great time.” (He’s trying to get a sequel greenlit.)
In turn, Slattery contacted his friend when developing Maggie Moore(s). Well, technically, he sent the script to Hamm’s agent. “It’s tricky because I didn’t want to impose and think he had to do me a favor if he wasn’t comfortable playing the role,” Slattery says. “That’s the good Catholic in me.”
But Hamm—who maintains, “if it were not to liking, I certainly would have given my opinion to him”—jumped at the opportunity. “He’s solving these heinous crimes and there are very real emotions that come with that,” he says of the character. “But then he’s got to go home and sit with himself and sometimes that’s even more difficult on a human level. It’s a resonant point for a lot of people of a certain age.”
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After moving to L.A. in the ‘90s, he struggled for years trying to make a living in his chosen field. Paychecks would consist of just a couple hundred dollars a month. “It’s a lot of swinging and missing before you’re steadily hitting the ball,” Hamm says. “They don’t teach you in acting school what the business is all about and the actual ins and outs of going on a million auditions and the disappointment of not getting the part. The sheer numbers game of it all is hard to understand.”
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Hamm echoes the sentiment: “If you work long enough, someone will take a flyer out on you. And that begets confidence. And that begets relationships and all the other intangibles that really help you be comfortable and believable in people’s living rooms once a week. And when one of your friends has a project, you go, That person would be good for this role. So much of this business is difficult, so it’s so nice to remove some of those obstacles.”
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When you work relentlessly for a solid decade before the right role in the right series comes along, the coast is never clear. “There’s not a hell of a lot of security in this business,” Slattery says. “And even when you think you do have security, you go Yeah, well, what’s going to be next?” Seconds Hamm, “I’m not sitting on pins and needles waiting for the phone to ring, but the feeling of insecurity never goes away. At least you do have some chips to work with. And I can actually get my own projects off the ground.”
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Hamm plays a coach in Mean Girls, the musical version of the stage show based on the 2004 comedy. Will he sing and dance? “I will not spoil anything!” (Responds Slattery, “He moves well. I’m just going to say that.”)
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Yet with all the rampant talk of AI and strikes, both acknowledge that the future is as uncertain as ever. “The business has completely changed even from a few years ago,” Slattery says. “And I don’t know what the solution is.” Hamm continues, “Who knows what the landscape will look like in 2030? I hope there will still be parts and a place for creators, and we’re not just plugged into some algorithm like it’s something out of Soylent Green.”
On the bright side? “We had a pretty good run,” Hamm adds with a sly smile. Besides, there’s always baseball.
Mr and Mrs Hamm were at Maggie Moore premiere at Tribecca festival
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John Slaterry
So Jon Hamm’s a great improviser? What’s it like to encourage that in him? Or to be his director and boss in general? Was it fun to boss him around, after putting up with him on Mad Men for all those years?
You know, you don’t really tell him what to do. You just hope he’ll do what you ask him to do. I’m kidding. Jon and I get along great. We did from the moment we met. And I’ve directed a bunch of Mad Men [episodes] too, so we got used to shepherding each other through scenes. Besides, he knows what he’s doing.
How so?
He has great instincts. We had to change one of our cameramen, and at one point he marveled: “This guy is always in the right place!” Meaning Hamm always knows where the light is, how high the camera is. He’s not restricting anybody, he just knows where it is and what that calls for technically while he’s playing a scene with somebody. That’s a gift, to have that kind of metabolism where you know calmly what needs to be done. It’s complicated, and he makes it look uncomplicated.
Speaking to PEOPLE on Monday at the world premiere of Maggie Moore(s) starring Hamm, the director says his former Mad Men costar is a "great guy" while expressing how happy he is for the actor's new chapter.
"I mean, they're lovely. Together, they're great people. I'm extremely happy for them," Slattery, 60, tells PEOPLE, who goes on to express how lucky he is in his nearly 30-year marriage to Talia Balsam. "So I couldn't be luckier and I hope he has the same luck as I did."
When you first read the script, did you immediately picture Jon in the lead role of the police chief?
JS: I did! It was a pretty obvious choice. I mean, he’s a good friend, we talk a lot, we spend a lot of time together, and I read it and I was, like, “Well, this seems like a good fit.” And luckily he thought so, too!
And whose idea was it to re-team you with Tina, Jon? Was it yours or John’s?
JH: Well, John had said, “Read the script, and if you like it, let’s make it. But no pressure, and certainly no obligation.” And I read it, and I loved it, and I pitched Tina to John. I thought it’d be a good opportunity for her to show a side of her performing capacity that people hadn’t really seen, and to play a little more serious and heady and real. And I thought that could be a fun thing to watch as a moviegoer. I thought that’d be kind of cool…and it turned out it was!
And I’m sure it was also nice to have the opportunity to reteam with her in front of the camera.
Hamm: Yeah, for sure! I think both John and I, having worked with Tina in various capacities, know that she brings an awful lot to the table, and to get a chance to do that was a blast. And we’re friends, too. It’s fun to work with your friends.
You guys obviously aren’t onscreen together in this, but I enjoyed seeing you together in Confess, Fletch.
JH: Thank you! Yeah, we’re hoping to get a chance to make some more of those. There’s quite a few more books in that series, so hopefully the powers that be all get along and we can find some money, we’ll get a chance to make another one of those, so…fingers crossed!
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And I’d like the chance to see more of Fletch and Frank together onscreen.JH: Well, you might get your wish. If we settle all our labor difficulties, hopefully we’ll get a chance to make another one.
Club Random with Bill Maher
Met on the set of Mad Men in 2014, not 2015...2015 is the year of the episode was aired..
We have 2 hypothesis
1)he met her on set in 2014
2)he knew her before and as a producer gave her a role.
In 2014, he's 43, she's 26 = 17 years ....He looked like a guy who left his girlfriend for a younger version... So the PR machin entered in action and trolled the press for 9 years.
After 9 years or more, she has a ring...
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