Feb
18“Friends With Kids” Official site
“Friends With Kids” Official site is now complete. Check it out!
Feb
18“Mad Men” Season 5 teaser
Like always, no new scenes…
Feb
17Esquire scans
Thanks to the amazing Joy, I added the scans from the new issue of Esquire!
Feb
17New Martha Speaks video
Feb
16“Friends with Kids” Red Band Trailer
Feb
16New candids
I added new photos of Jon in London on Feb. 15 and Feb. 14.
Feb
16Jon Hamm talks Mad Men!
“If you’re going to be pigeonholed, ‘handsome womaniser’ isn’t the worst thing to be,” says Jon Hamm with a knowing smile, eliciting an audible swoon from the overwhelmingly female audience at London’s Curzon cinema in Mayfair last night. The former GQ Man Of The Year may have broken that mould recently with stints as Boston cop in The Town and a narcissistic brute in Bridesmaids, but we’re equally pleased to see him return as to the role that made him: Donald Draper. Taking to the stage to be interviewed by Jo Whiley about Mad Men series five followed by an audience Q&A (genuine sample question from one blushing audience member: “Can I just ask you to say my name?”), Hamm shared his thoughts on his short-lived stint in erotica, whether Don will get with Joan and what to expect from the fifth series. Here are some of the highlights…
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His previous career as an erotic film set-dresser…
“First of all there was no penetration. It was soft-core porn. But essentially I had to move furniture around sweaty naked people. It wasn’t a great job.”
Smoking and drinking like Don
“The stress [of making Mad Men] makes me imbibe more. On the show we drink water and smoke leaves, but it’s still lighting a fire and inhaling smoke, so while it’s non-addictive, I don’t recommend it.”
Why Don never got with Joan
“Who says he hasn’t? The Don-Joan dynamic is something we do explore as the show goes on. They have worked together for a long time they know one another very well and… I’ll leave it at that.”
How the cast have fun on set
“There’s a place outside the make-up trailer with AstroTurf, like a garden, where we play dominoes and there’s a new board game every week. We’re all staggeringly competitive. We had a running series of dominos and Vincent Kartheiser is a very good player – so good he wanted to keep score. After half a season, I had 64 wins and 64 losses.”
The delay after the fourth series
“There’s studio people here so I better watch my ass! Part of what happens now in the wonderful world of media consumption that we live in is that everything is monetised. The people that own things have to determine how that money gets split up. That was a discussion that was happening at a level far higher than my pay grade but those deals had to be worked out. It was incredibly frustrating, but it’s part of the business. I wish they had said at the beginning of the show that they would pick up the show for seven years. I would have been very happy – but that’s not how it works.”
Being injured on set
“I’ve been hurt more on this show than anything I’ve done. In the first season a piece of wall fell and hit me on the head, [causing] seven stitches. That’s not funny – I had to go to the hospital! Then I broke my hand in a Korea flashback. There was an explosion and during the rehearsal I’m jumping onto this lovely soft cushion. So I jumped through and instead of landing I caught it, rolled over and heard my hand break. I went over to the director and said “I’m pretty sure I broke my hand, so can we be sure to make this in one [take]?” In the first season where I promote Peggy to copy writer, I have a removable cast – you can actually see it if you watch episode 12 or 13.”
Who he would play if not Don
“Roger Sterling – he gets all the jokes. We’d be doing a read through and I would say to John Slattery, [mimes flipping through a script] ‘Another great joke, another one, another’ and he would say, “You get to make out with her” – pointing at January Jones.”
Directing an episode in the fifth series
“The year I felt ready to do it and confident. Part of it is being confident enough to say “OK, we’ve got [the shot], let’s move on.” How am I as a director? I’m pretty laid back. I’m not a yeller or a screamer. I found it easy to direct people are essentially my friends and characters that I’ve known for years.”
What else we can expect from the new series
“The fourth season was about stripping this guy down, his family, job, everything, while also seeing an uptick in the booze and the philandering. The part that we’re getting to is him trying to repair the relationships he has broken. Don’s marriage [to Betty] did not survive season four, so that’s starting to reign in a little bit…”
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Feb
15Jon Hamm Promote The Fifth Season Of Mad Men
I added photos of Jon promoting “Mad Men” at The Curzon Mayfair in London today.
BAFTA‘s tweets:
- Already Hamm has admitted to being ‘terrible at musical theatre’ & his first taste of the stage being cast as Winnie the Pooh
- Even Jon Hamm’s been through his share of “bleak periods”. He explains “part of being an actor is being rejected over & over”
- Time to see the man in action, we get a taster of the new series which will be on @skyatlantic March 27th pic.twitter.com/ZiH1fFI4
- Hamm describes 1960s America as a time of changing moods when the youth began dictating what was important in culture
- Hamm on #DonDraper: “He’s done some pretty reprehensible things but I trust Matt as a storyteller to write these for a reason”
- Hamm explains the popularity of Draper’s character… “there’s a vicarious thrill in watching people go wrong & make mistakes”
- Don Draper is like a “sick puppy: people want to look after him,” says #jonhamm. People get a “vicarious thrill” watching him.
- Will Don & Peggy get it together? Hamm: “I strongly doubt it”
- Hamm on feminist issues in Mad Men; “they’re portrayed as realistically as possible. It was undoubtedly part of the culture”
- In order to find happiness Don is “going to have to try harder than he has been”
- In the 4th series Don Draper was a man “unmoored”. His relationship with Megan gives him something new to “cling onto”
- The gruelling element of the job is the intense amount of focus required for a long time. I’m pretty exhausted by the end of it
- Jon Hamm’s advice to wannabe actors; “if you’re scared of making mistakes you’re in the wrong business”
- Hamm deliberately rejects scripts that are set in the 60s to avoid being type-cast
- ‘The whole of the fourth season was about breaking this guy down’
- Hamm describes himself to be “diametrically opposed to #DonDraper. While I love playing him, I’m glad I don’t have to be him”
- To live the life of #DonDraper would be “exhausting” states Jon Hamm
- The Don / Joan dynamic is one that will be explored in the subsequent series. But Hamm will say no more…
- Being cast as a handsome womaniser (in bridesmaids etc) is a good way of not being typecast!
- That’s it folks. We’ve filmed the whole John Hamm interview & it’ll be up on BAFTA.org to coincide with the new series in March
Feb
14Front Row: Mad Men’s Jon Hamm
Presented by John Wilson, including an interview with actor Jon Hamm, best known as Don Draper in the TV drama series Mad Men.
Feb
14Jon Hamm on Sky News
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