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Carrie Coon and Alan Cumming, also nominees this year, share the secrets of surviving Emmy campaigning.
Jon Hamm
Fargo
I remember being overwhelmed my first time. It’s a recognition by your peers. And I know we’re on the downside of Peak TV, but there’s still tons of TV out there, so to have your role or show or performance or whatever it is singled out of the multitudes is already a win. And then just enjoy the rest of it. I don’t think it’s why any of us really get into what we do, but it’s also quite fun. And when you look around, especially when you’re in a room, and you see who else you’re getting to share the experience with, it’s a very nice feeling.
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Mr and Mrs Hamm were at The Talk House in Amagansett for Jelly Roll concert.
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Sorry, my dog is escaping,” said Jon Hamm to IndieWire, breaking off an answer midway through a phone interview. “I just opened the door and he went for it.”
“The pressure of any kind of award stuff is baked in,” Hamm said, when asked if dual-wielding puts more or less pressure on awards night. “It’s an intense thing. It’s a lot of run-up to it, so that sort of naturally amplifies what the meaning of the evening can be, but it’s also self-generated. I learned a long time ago not to put too much emphasis on those things ’cause they are a bit arbitrary in some way."
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Tossing it to “The Morning Show,” your fellow nominee Jennifer Aniston suggested you for the part of her love interest. What was your relationship before the show and what made you say yes?
I had met Jen through mutual friends over the years, of course, and obviously knew very much of her work and honestly was a really big fan of the first season of “The Morning Show.” I just thought what an amazing choice for her and Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell and Apple, honestly, to go and do this thing. So we had known each other socially. That was pretty much it and, when the idea came up, I just thought it really made sense — both of us in a scene, in a frame. It looked right and I thought it was something that was compelling in some way. I’m glad she thought so too.
We really had a lot of conversations about what the tone should be and how it really would play out and what it would feel like. And we really both understood, “OK, we’re both of a similar age,” now, “What does that look like?” It’s not two 25-year-olds getting together. It’s not that story. It’s something very different. It’s two very accomplished older people in a different place in their life that have certain things and are looking for certain different things. We both responded to that calls.
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Can you talk about your bond with Gandolfini a bit? The Sopranos ended right as Mad Men began.
There’s a photo somewhere in the ether of Jimmy and I at the last Sopranos award show, SAG Awards or Golden Globes or something—he came up to me with purpose, and he’s a big dude. It was later in the evening, and he grabbed me by the shoulder and he just said, “I just want you to know you’re going to be great in this, and you’re next. You’re the next one.” And I said, “Okay. Thank you. I love everything you do.” That was just the beginning of him recognizing, Okay, I see what’s happening here, and I recognize it because I went through it. He maintained that relationship with me over the course of the years.
Watching what he had done post-Sopranos too, him trying to shed that mantle—that took so much out of him to be that guy. Not only on set and onscreen, but the impact it had socially trying to be in the world: “Hey, Tony, how you doing?” Understandably, because it was a very popular show. But it’s debilitating at a certain point. It was interesting to watch him navigate that, and I think, unfortunately, his health didn’t allow him to have much more of that. I’m pretty good friends with his son, Michael, and we talk about a lot of that stuff all the time, just trying to find a balance in work and life and pick the things that you want to do and for the right reasons. He’s starting off on his career and he’s having a very good one so far. It’s been really nice to maintain that friendship through Mikey.
