June 2024 - news - Jon Hamm

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Mr Hamm was at an FYC event for the 5th season of Fargo. 

Mr Hamm was at the Emmy FYC Event for Apple TV+ The morning show at Paramount Studios.

will he reprise the role.

"I don’t know, I’m just unemployed,” Hamm joked.

Aniston told the crowd that she was excited for her romantic storyline this season and the moral dilemmas that came along with it, particularly when Hamm was cast in the role. “Who’s more fun? We had such a good time,” she said, noting, “He really is one of the most committed actors, [the] hardest working actor honestly; you were flying to Calgary and then back to us, without a complaint in the world,” as he shot Fargo at the same time.

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The usual bs, so a few excerpts here and there... 

While shooting the Mad Men pilot, you got vitiligo — stress doesn’t cause it, but it is a trigger. Has it waned since the show ended?

It’s waxed and waned. It’s a pigmentation thing. Michael Jackson had it. It affects the Black community significantly more because you have melanin in your skin and it goes away. But I remember waking up one day while shooting the pilot, and it looked like someone had dropped bleach on my chin. Then I looked at my hands and shins, and they had these patches on them. I went to see a couple of doctors, and they were like, “You can try this cream. We don’t really have a solution. But you’re white, it’s probably fine.” Which is what people have said to white people their whole life: “You’re white, you’re probably fine.”

Had you missed being part of conversationH when you weren't ?

No, but it hits different when you’re in it. Look, I’ve steadily worked since Mad Men. I’ve not had a down year. I call my business manager once a month and go, “How are we doing?” And he says, “We’re good.” But there’s work and then there’s work that people put on magazine covers. And I’ve had so many people come up and want to talk about The Morning Show. Fargo, too. People will literally whisper, “Jesus, I really loved you in Fargo.” I’m like, “You can say it out loud."

I’ll admit, I had to watch some of Fargo through my fingers.I

It was very dark. And being by myself in Calgary was dark in every way. I was very thankful I had a Peloton because I could at least get a sweat going. But it was a hard job. I also loved it. It’s fun to play the bad guy.

I hear you’ll be returning to The Morning Show, too.

I believe I am. It’s a matter of scheduling, but my thing was, “Don’t bring me back just to bring me back. Bring me back to move the story forward in some way.” And I think they've figured out a way that might happen....... 

At one point, Weiner wanted you to be in his film, too, no?

Yeah, and he asked me to do a part in The Romanoffs, too. And it wasn’t a fuck-you to him, it was more, “I love you very much, but I need to go walk this path alone.”

Do you need Weiner’s permission to revive the character? Or do you give him a heads up?

No. Maybe I should have? But I didn’t and I wouldn’t. I think I have a legitimate claim to ownership over that character as much as he does.

Are you two still close?

I don’t see him much, but I’ll text him probably once a month. For better or for worse, that guy gave me my career, and I love him and can’t wait to see what he does next.

It feels as though he’s in that nebulous place in culture where I’m not sure if he was canceled. I think he fell into the #MeToo bucket [with allegations of sexual harassment, which he d noenied].

That was a fun time with all of that coming down and going, “Where does anything fall? And are we allowed to have the conversation or is it just immediately shut down? And is it binary or is it a continuum?”

In the early days of the movement, it seemed to be quite binary.

I think we’ve moved through that. And listen, there definitely needed to be a reckoning of some sort. But the binary situation felt very unhelpful because it was tarring a lot of people with a similar brush, where you’re like, “Oh, is that the same? Because it doesn’t feel like it’s the same at all.” I felt that with Aziz Ansari, like, “Wait a minute, this doesn’t feel the same as Harvey [Weinstein]."

Who is still on your collaborator wish list?

Guys like Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Bong Joon Ho – all these tremendous lions of the cinema, so to speak. But there’s also people like Julio Torres, who’s phenomenally gifted. I’ve had my eye on him since he was writing for SNL. I remember going to a show, Emma Stone was hosting, and there was this weird outlier sketch called “Wells for Boys,” and I asked my friend, “Who wrote that?” She says, “Julio Torres, keep an eye on that name.” And I said, “I sure will.”

Many in your orbit now remark on how much you’re working lately.

My bones ache, but I’m in a good place. Something happened in the last four, five years, where I got really, really comfortable doing what I do, like I’m invited to the party. I was talking to Billy Crudup, and I revere Billy, and he goes, “Man, do you still get freaked out about all this?” I said no. I let that go at some point. I used to think, “I’m not going to be good enough,” and all that. But there’s always take two. And they don’t use the bad takes. So, yeah, I like where I am. I’m a happy guy. And I’ve worked hard to get here, and it’s not been a steady upward climb. There have been setbacks and difficulties, but that’s life.

You also got married last year. Had marriage been important to you?

I didn’t look at marriage as a thing. Obviously, my parents were not married long, so I don’t have a model to look at and go, “Oh, this is how one finds happiness.” I just knew at a certain point I wanted to be with this person. But when I proposed, I was terrified. I was like, “What am I doing?”

Terrified of what, exactly?

I don’t know. I just remember feeling, “This is really scary.” Then going, “Well, it probably means it’s worthwhile.” And my wedding day was perfect. Everybody I love was there. It was so emotional, and it felt right. I was like, “OK, I guess this is a thing.” We did it [where they had shot the Mad Men finale], which was also amazing. Again, it was like a reset, a reboot, a reframe, a reimagining, nine years later, almost to the day. So, it’s been great. And I hope it turns into kids. It’s not lost on me that I’m 53. I will be the old dad, but so it goes. It could be a good thing. We’ll see.

I had asked Slattery what was the question he’d want me to ask you, to which he said, ” ‘How much money do you have?’ No, seriously, ask him how much.”

Enough, Slattery. I have enough.

And finally, what’s the question you’d like never to be asked again?

How much money do you have?”

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