I was a late bloomer in every sense,” he said. “As my therapist would say, I’ve always been kind of surviving, and only in the last 20 years or so have I been able to really participate in life in the way that my friends that had normal adolescences growing up” could. He worked various jobs beginning at age 16, including as a teacher after college, and moved to Los Angeles at 24.
“If you wanted something, get a [expletive] job and go get it, go do it,” he said.
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Unlike many people with humble origins, Hamm rarely lacked confidence, said Robert Lawson, a friend since high school. It helped that Hamm was good-looking, played football. It helped that friends and other families supported him, particularly after his father died.
“All of our parents always loved Jon,” said Lawson, now a communications executive in Tokyo. His own parents let Hamm live in the basement after college, even after Lawson moved out. (Lawson’s parents, Vic and Linda, were among the people Hamm thanked in his 2015 Emmy acceptance speech.)
“He was always this fun, smart, respectful guy with a magnetic personality,” Lawson said. “So he always had somewhere
As “Mad Men” ended, in 2015, there were signs of strain. A cascade of difficulties swamped his personal life: He separated from his longtime partner, the actress and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt; he went to rehab for alcohol addiction; an old fraternity hazing episode, in which the victim needed medical treatment, was resurfaced by reporters. (Hamm was charged with hazing but ultimately not convicted.)
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His attempts to become a go-to leading man in the movies met with middling box-office success. “Does that say that the audience doesn’t want to see me in movies?” he said. “I don’t know; I don’t think so. I think that there’s so many other things that go into it.” But he established his range and comedic bona fides, and he landed roles in some of the biggest movies around, like “Top Gun: Maverick.”
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The work was varied and steady. A few years after moving to the hills, he began a relationship in earnest with the actress Anna Osceola, now his wife, whom he had met while taping the final “Mad Men” episode — the one with Draper’s Coca-Cola meditation. His new house became a home. Hamm doesn’t have children, but he said he hopes for them — a good sign he wasn’t bluffing on the whole happiness thing.
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Drinking with Jon Hamm during those days was different than having a drink with Jon Hamm now,” he said. “He definitely has come out on the other side,” he added, “and I think meeting Anna was such a great thing. He is as happy as I have ever seen him.” (Hamm does still have the occasional drink and said people often wrongly assume that “I’m off the wagon” because of his short rehab stint. “I’ve never claimed to be a sober person,” he said.)
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“That’s the fun of having a relatively lengthy career,” Hamm said. “You can play both sides of that kind of expectation.”
We climbed the hill back toward his house. His wife was home getting ready for Oscars parties, and he would need to get ready soon, too. He seemed excited. It was fun to think that in his baseball cap, aviators and sneakers he had passed virtually unnoticed through the park, but soon he would put on a nice shirt and no one could miss him.
“It’s just good to be part of the conversation again,” he said. Experience had taught him to be patient, to trust — “This, too, shall pass” was a phrase he twice invoked — and it seemed to be paying off.
“Part of the challenge is having the wherewithal, having the confidence, to say, It’s going to take a minute,” he said. “I know that there will be opportunities to come, and I want to take a minute to sit.”
Jon Hamm Has Learned a Lot Since Mad Men
It’s always fun when you get to do stuff while you’re making a show,” he says over Zoom on a mid-April morning. “I enjoyed the few times I had to do stuff in Mad Men, when I was swimming or something.
I'm 54 now, and I was 53 when I shot the first season of the show,” he says. “I’m probably in the best shape of my life, which is nice to be able to say at this advanced age.”
“I think it’s important to maintain an ‘Eyes Wide Open,’ presence at all times in your life,” Hamm says. “Not all of us need to turn to a life of crime—that’s obviously a very dramatic storytelling decision. But life boils down to a series of interconnected decisions, and sometimes those decisions aren’t made by you, they’re made by other people, and you’re forced to live with the consequences. It’s a crazy thing, this thing we call life, and sometimes it leads us in unexpected direction.
MEN’S HEALTH: We’ve got to start things off on a personal note: How are you holding up after the Super Bowl?
JON HAMM: [Laughs] I’m fine. It was a bit of a shock to a lot of people, but so it goes. Philly was the better team that day, for sure. They put a stamp on it.
MH: I’m a Jets fan. So at this point, I woulp give an arm and a leg just to lose in a Super Bowl.
JH: [Laughs] Oh, I’m sorry.
MH: You’ve done so much comedy and drama in your career, and in Your Friends and Neighbors you get to a bit of both. Is there one you like doing more than the other?
JH: Obviously, we wanted to have a particular tone to the show—we didn’t want it to just be a straight serious drama; We wanted there to be moments of levity and humor in it. I don’t really have a favorite; I like doing things that I feel like I would seek out and watch, and this is certainly one of those things. I pick things by, basically, does it interest me, and would it interest me as an audience member? I’m glad Apple enjoyed it so much that they’ve already picked it up for a second season.
MH: As the star and as a producer, did you take influence from anything in particular?
H: One of the big decisions we had to make was who was going to direct the first couple episodes of the show. We picked Craig Gillespie, who I’d worked with on Million Dollar Arm, but who people know from I, Tonya and Cruella. Craig was a really instrumental part of establishing the tone that you talk about, both visually and from the sensibility of finding the right balance of drama and humor, and made it look like a million dollars.
MH: You’ve definitely kept busy, but this is your first true star vehicle Tv show since Mad Men. What have you learned in the time since?
JH: What I really took away from the whole Mad Men experience was just how intense and all-consuming being the lead of an hour-long show really is. It’s a pretty intense job, and when you’re dealing with the emotional resonance and the physical demands of being on set 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, for four-and–a-half months, it’s a challenge. It’s much more difficult in your 50s than it is in your 30s, but you learn how to pace yourself free
My wife, and our dog—we had to move our whole family from Los Angeles to New York. That’s different when you’re living in a rented space, and all the other things that come with that. All of it is just about taking it one day at a time, and making sure you don’t forget that this is the thing that you love to do, and that you’re really enjoying it.
MH: What was different about this show that made you want to hop on as the star and as a producer?
JH: I really liked the story. I liked the set-up. I liked Jonathan—I really was pleased at how he was able to create something that felt familiar and very new at the same time. That, to me, was… again, I look at things both from the perspective of being in it, and being somebody wondering ‘Would I want to watch this?’ And this checked both of those boxes for me.
If I look at the last four or five things I’ve been in, whether it’s been Landman or Fargo or Morning Show or Fletch, all of those things have that in common: Would I want to be in it, and would I want to watch it? I’ve been lucky enough to be able to tick both of those boxes on the projects I’ve picked, and I’ve been on a pretty good run, so I’m enjoying it.
MH: One of the first scenes of the show finds your character contemplating life, longevity, and mortality just from a chance encounter with a woman in a bar. Do you think that’s just where guys’ minds go after they hit, say, 30?
JH: I don’t know if it’s 30, but I think certainly once you hit your 40s and 50s, you really start thinking, ‘OK, am I on the back nine? Am I closer to the end than the beginning?’ I think that’s a thing people think about. It may not inform everybody’s decisions in a real way, but I certainly think it’s something people think about, especially when they have children, and they have people that depend on them. What’s it going to be like when I’m gone? Have I prepared the environment here well enough?
MH: Last thing before we go. I want to ask about Mad Men and Top Gun: Maverick; Do you have any kind of group chat or other kind of way to keep in touch with those casts to this day?
JH: Yeah! Mad Men ended ten years ago this year, and we had a fairly active chat for a long time. It’s been dormant for some time, I think we’ve all moved on to greener pastures at some point. But it still exists in the world, and the same for Top Gun. It still exists; When Monica [Barbarbo] got nominated for an Academy Award and did such wonderful work in A Complete Unknown [in which she played Joan Baez], we all chimed in and said ‘Congratulations.’
It’s a nice thing to have. Those things are obviously, like, remembering the time you had on these projects, not only to be able to look back on the finished project—I still watch Top Gun if I see it on TV or cable, or if it’s on the airplane, I’ll definitely watch it. But it’s also nice to have the memories of the friends you make. Group chats are a really fun way to remind yourself of those things.
MH: One way that 2025 isn't too bad.
JH: Exactly!
Jon Hamm on YF&N, Mad Men and White Lotus
"I'm not sure what the track is called, but I know it’s by a band called The Walkmen. It was fully Jonathan Tropper's idea. He created this and is to get all the credit for that, and I love it," the actor and executive producer explains. "Those things can go one of two ways. They can be forgettable or something that you don't hit that little skip intro button. I have always been a big fan of Mad Men's incredible opening sequence, but I also liked shows like The Sopranos. It just gets you in the mood, and ours is no exception. Thank you for rightly calling it out. I also love it when shows like The Wire and The White Lotus change a little bit each season. Each season has its wrinkle on it, so it's very cool."
On the subject of The White Lotus, would he be down to join the HBO smash hit if an offer came up?
" It's so funny that you mention that," he laughs. "I actually know Mike White, and I had dinner with him the other night. Good Lord, what a gig. Go to the greatest hotels in the world and get paid?
"It wasn't in the script," he explains. "I've only really worked with one person who baked in musical cues, and that was Edgar Wright on Baby Driver, but Jonathan has a tremendous ear for all of this. It's part of what makes him a gifted storyteller and a really wonderful filmmaker. Honestly, those things are his, the music supervisors and the composer's world, and all of those things you're right to point out because they serve to make the environment much more lush and profound and rich in its experience."
" Somebody saw it at Apple and liked what they were seeing, but yes, it's a wonderful honor," Hamm confirms. "It is a tremendous vote of confidence, obviously, and honestly, they've never done it before, so we were the first one. It's a tremendous feather in our cap. It means we're doing something right. I've started to read the scripts, and I think I'm on number eight of ten for season two, and I'm thrilled at where the story is going."
"I've always been an actor. That's the one job I've had consistently throughout my life, except for being a teacher, a waiter, and a bartender. The majority of my hopes and dreams were invested in being an actor. Even when I wasn't making money as an actor, I still considered myself an actor, so it's a little bit different for us in the creative world. We can still do what we're doing even when we're not getting paid for it, but for Coop, it's a more difficult transition."
"When I first moved to LA, I was a volunteer for a thing called Project Angel Food, which was delivering meals to homebound AIDS patients," The Morning Show actor recalls. "It was a phenomenal way to put everything in perspective and a great way to learn how to get around Los Angeles. It was doing good deeds, and I think more people should volunteer their time. I remember standing in line behind Justine Bateman. She was the first celebrity I met in Los Angeles."
" It's a nice milestone for sure," he says. "It doesn't feel like it has been ten years. I don't feel ten years older, I'll put it that way, but I guess a decade has elapsed. I know that ATX TV Festival in Austin, Texas, is doing a panel discussion of some sort. I'm sure other things will come up, but I don't know the specifics other than that."
With a string of projects, including Disney Pixar's Hoppers and the horror film Off Season, already in his immediate future, is there room for a sequel to his 2022 Fletch reboot, Confess, Fletch?
We have a script for the second one. We shopped it around, but nobody wants to make it," Hamm laments. "If you know anybody with $30 million, let me know, and I'll make another one for you. I loved it. I've had so many people you know from. Many people have mentioned it, from former President Obama to David Zaslav at Warner Brothers to Ted Sarandos. Everybody loved that movie, but no one wants to make another one, so I don't know. Find me $30 million, and we'll do it."



....... revealed he's a huge fan of Latin trap and reggaeton artist Bad Bunny. In fact, Hamm has visions of catching one of his upcoming shows in Puerto Rico, which kick off July 11 and run through Sept. 14.
It’s kind of a thing,” Hamm told Savannah Guthrie on TODAY, while gushing about the Grammy-winning artist.
“Well, we’re hoping to go to Puerto Rico. I’m excited because he’s doing this residency where he’s doing a month and a half of shows in Puerto Rico," he said. "First of all, I think it’s really cool that he’s going back to his home, to really kind give back to the fans. He’s reserving the first four, five or 10 shows, or whatever it is, for only residents of Puerto Rico, which is so cool.”
Hamm and Bad Bunny appeared together during a Q&A sketch on “SNL50” earlier this year, which only heightened Hamm’s appreciation for him.
“He’s a really nice guy. And he’s funny. And he’s fun and his music is awesome,” he said.
Hamm also said the “Dákiti” hitmaker likes to call him by the nickname “Jon Jamón,” which translates from Spanish to “Jon Ham.” Hamm also noted that his music puts him in a good mood.
“You can’t listen to his music and not smile. I just love his story. He’s a really nice guy. He’s funny. He’s an ‘SNL’ guy, too. They love him over there,” Hamm said.





Actress Isabel Gravitt
Glamour: Jon Hamm and Amanda Peet play your parents in Your Friends & Neighbors. How familiar were you with their work, and what did your parents say about this casting?
....And then, the first thing I saw Jon Hamm in was as a guest star in Gilmore Girls, because I love Gilmore Girls. Of course, I've been watching Mad Men too. So just a dream. My parents were like, "Jon Hamm? Wait. Amanda Peet? What?" Absolutely unbelievable.
Did you tell Jon that you first saw him in Gilmore Girls?
I did. It took me a little to work up the nerve to tell him the reason why I first heard of him was Gilmore Girls. But I was like, so, "Peyton Sanders, Gilmore Girls episode three of..." No, but I talked to him a little bit about it. Because Alexis Bledel was in Mad Men, and so there was that connection there. So yeah, I got to bring it up to him, which was hilarious.
And what did he say?
He was a little surprised. I'm sure it's been a minute since he's heard the name Gilmore Girls, but I'm glad to talk about it. I love that show.
Did your parents get to meet Jon and Amanda?
My mom met Jon. It was actually hilarious, because my mom is very shy, and I brought her to set with me one day. Jon was in the corner wearing his suit, and he was on his phone just kind of hanging out. We were between setups. I was like, "Do you want to go say hi to him?" My mom was like, "No, no, I couldn't. I couldn't." And I'm like, "Okay, it's fine." And[creator/showrunner] Jonathan Tropper walks up to us, and he's like, "Let's go say hi to Jon Hamm." My mom's like, "No." And he's like, "Let's go. He doesn't bite. Come on." So he took us over to say hi, and Jon was so nice. My mom was like, "Oh my God." Afterwards, she couldn't believe that we made her do that. It was hilarious.
...... but when he has a day off, he tells PEOPLE he likes to keep things simple by spending time with his wife of two years, actress Anna Osceola, 37, and his dog Murphy."
Really, when I have time off, I like to just do nothing because when I have time on, I'm pulled in a hundred different directions," he says. "When [me and Anna] get to travel together, it's really nice. We get to just unplug and really relax together, and that's what I look forward to."
"I think we've certainly seen a version of the finance bro, but not one who really has a comeuppance in this way and has to really struggle, and I think that humanizes him in a really relatable way," he says. "I think [show creator] Jonathan [Tropper] created a very compelling world to set these characters in. I think it's really resonant for our times right now with what's going on with rampant consumerism and everything that's happening with the price of eggs and whatnot."
Like Coop, Hamm says he appreciates "nice things," but he recognizes "there's an absurd quality that we've reached at this late stage in capitalism."
"The richest man in the world is taking a chainsaw to government and putting people out of work arbitrarily, which feels like maybe not the best use of however many billions of dollars that guy has," he says, seemingly referencing Elon Musk. "We're at a very strange precipice, to say the least."
I've certainly made a lot of decisions in my life, and I'm very happy with my place in not only my life, but my career and my family and everything," he says. "So I think if I made some different decisions, would I be as happy as I am now? Who knows? Self-reflection is a wonderful thing, and it's a wonderful tool. It's a wonderful lesson we can all learn from."
"I don't come from money, and I've been poor for a significant portion of my life," he says. "I certainly don't spend money profligately and crazily, so I don't really have any things that I would look at and go, 'Man, I really shouldn't have done that.'"
"I think that all of the things that I've acquired in my life have meaning, like art," he continues. "Truly, the most meaningful things in my life are my family and my relationships and the emotional connections that I've made. Those are priceless."

After SNL
Hamm told CNN his new show is far from alone in that lane.
“There certainly does seem to be a moment, especially on television, of sort of rich people behaving badly. If you want to look at ‘The White Lotus’ or ‘Big Little Lies’ or ‘The Perfect Couple,’ there’s quite a few examples of it. Maybe the time is right for a show like this to really kind of say, ‘What is it we’re doing? What are we trying to say?’ That life is only about acquiring larger and larger piles of stuff? Because maybe that’s not exactly the most fulfilling way to live a life.”
.. .... So did working on the show cause Hamm to view Hollywood a bit differently, given it’s also a world in which the pursuit of wealth and success reign supreme?
The “Mad Men” actor laughed and said he’s always been “cynical” about the industry, but he has hopes for his new series when it comes to the audience.
At the end of the day, I hope that they’re entertained,” Hamm said. “We’re trying to make something that not only entertains people, but also makes them think.”
“That’s why we made it a little deeper than just, you know, kind of consumer porn.”
Deadline video series The Actor’s Side
New project for Mr Hamm
MGM+ has ordered a series adaptation of the scripted podcast “American Hostage,” with Jon Hamm set to play the lead role.
Hamm also starred in the podcast version of “American Hostage,” which originally debuted in 2022. It was reported November 2023 that a TV version was in the works with Hamm attached to star....
The official logline states that the show is a “psychological thriller set in the 1970s that tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman (Hamm), a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program.”
Production will begin in Winnipeg, Canada this fall, with MGM+ ordering eight episodes. The series is planned to be an anthology. Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers are the co-creators of the series and serve as executive producers.
Hamm will executive produce in addition to starring alongside Connie Tavel, Sharon Hoffman, and Ryan’s MiddKid Productions partner Marney Hochman.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/american-hostage-podcast-jon-hamm Mrs Callahan wants to cancel Mr Hamm, cos she needs a name to launch her new podcast.
The shocking account resurfaced this week amid renewed calls for him to face public
When the Daily Mail contacted Hamm by phone Wednesday, the stunned actor deferred to his people.
'I think you should call my rep, who are you? This is inappropriate, it's a very odd choice for you to call me,' he snapped.
They are claims that have been around for years. No, I don't want to respond!
'I'm a little bit offended that you called my personal line, that's why we have representatives"
Actress Olivia Munn about Mr Hamm
The told ABC Audio she was initially very intimidated to meet and especially work with"the Mad Men star.
He is so kind and generous, Munn said,
"I hadn't acted since 2019, because we had COVID, then I got pregnant, then I had postpartum [depression], then I had canc
I started on these two scenes, and I kept mumbling my words and forgetting lines,BBC
"I just was like, 'Oh my god, oh my gosh ... did I lose it?'
"Jon noticed the inner panic that I was failing at covering up. And he took me aside and said, 'Hey, you got this. You can do this. This is why we want you. We know that you can this. Just relax"
"Just him talking to me like that, one-on-one, actor to actor, as my executive producer as well, just gave me a lot of confidence," Munn said. "I calmed down. And then it's really been smooth sailing from that moment on".
Mr Hamm guest of Hollywood chatter
Mr Hamm talked about : loosing his mother and father may have influenced his decision to pursue acting.

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exclusively from Audible April 24.
The come back of the hazing episode : zero echo, zero effect... Only the Daily mail to help Callahan to launch her podcast..... Mr Hamm wins the battle of time about a 35 years old event : he can't be cancel, so the character of Draper is stronger than the cancel culture..... and the Gold card : the death of his parents, that he uses at every occasion in every fucking interview.
The interesting fact is : the story reappeared after the big promo campaign and not during..... OR he's a last minute choice for Miss Callahan, as the show is a succees on Aple+.
New-York screening for F&N and Slaterry as a support diver