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between mad men and Your friends and neighborsNo one can down (fake) whiskey like Jon Hamm.
(“Scotch” in Your friends and neighbors It’s actually iced tea or water with caramel food coloring, depending on which actor is drinking it.)
Although Andrew Cooper, his Apple TV character, prefers to drink old Scotch, Hamm — and Cobb, for that matter — doesn’t want to go back to the stuff they drank midday at Sterling Cooper’s Draper Pryce restaurant. The 1960s may have been great (although it wasn’t at Sterling Cooper Draper-Pryce), but the booze was bad.
“Don Draper drank the Canadian Club, which is kind of a rye cocktail mixed in the basement,” Hamm said. Hollywood Reporter During our conversation, which was ostensibly about… Your friends and neighbors Season two. “Coop drinks Macallan 25, which is $5,000 a bottle. I’ve had both – Macallan is much better.”
Same thing, except I’m pretty sure I personally top the Macallan 18. Feel free to send me a 25 year old (bottle), Apple – you’ve got your money’s worth. (With a market capitalization of about $3.7 billion, Apple makes Amazon look like a small business retailer on Saturday.)
Macallan, proper scotch as it is, you know, From ScotlandIt dates back to the 1820s. The expensive and desirable single malt varieties were not introduced until the 1980s.
“Single malts weren’t popular in the 1960s,” Hamm said. Blends were popular – J&B, Johnnie Walker, and all blended whiskeys were hugely important.
These days, blended whiskey could certainly use some good PR – or perhaps a complete rebranding. Who will do it better than Draper significant? One of the greatest advertising crossovers of all time was Mercedes-Benz signing Hamm as its midstream spokesperson mad menemployment. Madison Avenue’s top (fake) ad man adapted his rendition—or at least brought the same voice—of the Carousel to the luxury automaker’s TV and radio ads.
The 15-year partnership (2010-2025) helped Hamm for Coop uniquely create voiceover explanations of items stolen from his friends and neighbors. (Lucy Liu is now the voice of Mercedes-Benz.)
“It wasn’t painful! I’ll say that,” Hamm said. “I loved doing it so much… I’ve outlived a fair number of CEOs and CMOs – it’s been a wonderful, wonderful career.”
“It helps,” he continued. “You definitely get a feel for what the beat sounds like. You have a very confident ability with your voice and what it sounds like. The first couple of times people do something like this, when they hear themselves on tape, they just think, ‘I don’t sound like that.’ I know what I sound like, and I like the way I sound.”
So does he Your friends and neighbors showrunner Jonathan Tropper, who designed and installed the device for the show. This method works, says Hamm, because “it feels like it’s just a presentation, but it feels ridiculous.”
Hamm’s motto during his time at Mercedes-Benz was “best or nothing,” which Button calls “cool.” With Tropper, his Apple TV character…isn’t making the best decisions, and is in real danger of ending up with nothing.
Although Trooper is a good writer — and an equally good lead actor — it’s not easy over the course of the series (a third season is underway) to justify Coop repeatedly choosing risky home invasions and robberies over a return to managing hedge funds. In Season 2, Cobb returns to the legal robbery game in a big way, but inevitably returns to a life of crime.
It’s an easy decision for Tropper to make, given the entire plot of this world he’s created, but a difficult one for Coop to justify. So we asked Hamm to talk about choosing his character.
“Like us humans, characters often make the wrong choice,” Hamm said. “Or bad choices, because, [shrugs]”The reasons.”
“The idea of going back to [the job that] Hamm continued: “I actively took him out of his life and put him on this path to where he almost ended up in prison for the rest of his life. That was, I think, very distasteful to him. “The idea of turning into a fairly sustainable, if not unsustainable, life of crime was conducive to that. So there is something to be said for that. Obviously, we, as omniscient viewers, know this is not going to end well.
Beyond the Apple TV — and from any TV, in fact — is a separate Ham vehicle that started well and may have ended prematurely.
Admit it, Fletch It’s a pretty good movie for 2022 and it really could have gone the right way, well, Fletch livesthe 1989 sequel to the classic Fletch (1985). Admit it, Fletch It is actually a sequel novel to the original Fletch) in Gregory Macdonald’s 11-book series; Fletch lives It was an original screenplay by Leon Kaptanos (and this is probably where it went wrong).
The last time I spoke to Hamm, I cornered him to talk more to Fletch (which he’s not Grimsburgmuch to the Chagrimsburg Fox, who was throwing the party). At the time, the problem was Harvey Weinstein’s bullshit, as Miramax owned the rights. Well, not much has changed there, but now you can add David Ellison’s (much different, to be fair) nonsense to the pile.
“Unfortunately, that creates a difficulty in terms of rights and all that stuff. It was owned by Miramax, and they’ve obviously had some serious problems, and Paramount, which is obviously going through a tough time.” [changes] “For now,” Hamm said. THR Last week. “As much as I loved it and I love making all these books – I’m going to make Fletches until I die – I think unfortunately the intellectual property exists in a kind of limbo at the moment.”
“Write your congressman,” Hamm added, which is something Fletch would say, and perhaps why he’s the only man in Hollywood who could play the iconic Chevy Chase. (Jason Sudeikis was once attached to take over the character for an adaptation Fletch Wonthe eighth book in the series, and at various times Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, Zach Braff, and Ryan Reynolds have all been expected to wear Irwin M. Fletcher’s faded Los Angeles Lakers jersey.)
“I met Chevy Chase, actually, randomly in an airport lounge,” Hamm said. “He came up behind me and surprised me, and I heard this voice say, ‘I heard you played Fletch.’ It was like, ‘Oh my God!’ I gave him a big hug and told him how much I loved him. It was so wonderful.
Oh, because not every “I-met-Chevy-Chase” story ends this way.
“Obviously this movie — those movies — were huge for me. They made me read the books, and they made me understand that there were a lot of other stories out there,” Hamm said. “I hope, at some point, the rights will revert to something else… I hope against hope that we can make something else.”
Hamm is definitely making something else Your friends and neighbors Season – The streaming series has been renewed for a third season months before the second season premieres on Friday.
