Jon Hamm In Details
It is not very often I am willing to read through five pages of an interview, but the Details one with Jon Hamm is pretty good. Besides learning that he drinks Bud in a can, speeds when he drives, and has no problem with f bombs he is also perfectly willing to throw reality stars, housewives, vampires and werewolves under a bus.
"L.A. represents opportunity," he says. "And, as has been proven over and over in the current media landscape, it doesn't take much for them to put you on TV. If that's all you want, you can be on The Bachelor or The Real Housewives or whatever show just wants oversized personalities, ridiculous behavior, and zero dignity."
"When you try to learn how to act, you approach it with respect. But if you just want to be famous . . . that's not that much different than porn. 'I'm a movie star!' Well, no, you're not. You're a porn star, and that's completely different. And you know, hey, mazel tov—porn probably built half the houses out here, but you're selling your dignity in a way that I feel I'm not. And once you sell it, it's gone. You ain't getting it back."
He then discusses his new movie, The Town. "It's got a love story, it's got a crime element, but it's very much for adults. There's not a lot of candy for the Twitter-obsessed. It just deals with adult s**t—no werewolves, no vampires. Yet . . . they're retooling it for 3D."
He is also grateful that Mad Men is on AMC and not a network because he says that he would never have got cast. Well, I am grateful too because I definitely don't need to see Don Draper be played by Rob Lowe.
