Jon Hamm Interview for The Town - Celebrity Interviews

While Jon Hamm started out with a film background in movies like Kissing Jessica Stein and We Were Soldiers, it was television that gave him his big break, first on the Lifetime series The Division and then more prominently, on the AMC drama Mad Men as Don Draper.

The role has garnered Hamm three Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe Award win for Best TV Drama Actor. After success in the hit remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still and a memorable, Emmy-nominated guest stint on the NBC comedy 30 Rock as Liz Lemon’s neighbor and love interest Drew Baird, the 39 year-old actor hopes to parlay his TV acclaim firmly into film with a role as Adam Frawley, an FBI agent pursuing a group of bank robbers, in the crime thriller The Town.

He talks about how he chooses his film roles, now that he’s established himself as a TV star.

“I don’t have any sort of calculus to choosing film roles,” Hamm believes, “I just responded to the story of this and really wanted to play the character. I read a very, very, very early version of this script when another director and another package was attached to it and didn’t necessarily respond to the story then.”

“Once Ben signed on, then I became much more interested as a fan of his first film and a massive fan of this one,” he adds, “No, I just try to pick parts that somehow inspire me creatively and I want to work with people whose work I respect and admire and in both of those cases, both of those boxes were checked for this project.”

Hamm succinctly described for us the experience of working with second-time director and co-star Ben Affleck

“I mostly take notes with whatever Ben says,” Jon states.

Jon also commented on a question posed to fellow TV-based co-star Blake Lively, who is best known for playing Serena van der Woodsen on the hit CW TV drama Gossip Girl about whether she was betting with show co-star Penn Badgeley. This being that Badgeley also has a film role in The Town’s competing film coming out, the teen comedy Easy A about who’s film will be more successful.

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