Jon Hamm says he was in ‘two minds’ about reprising Don Draper for Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop Tart movie ‘Unfrosted’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Jon Hamm has reflected on his decision to reprise his Mad Men role as suave advertising executive Don Draper in Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, saying: “I was of two minds.” The film fictionalizes the events around the invention of Pop Tarts, and is set during the 1960s. I’m not trying to be too precious about this, but I don’t want to devalue it.’ He goes, ‘I understand that, but this would be very funny.’ Then I called Slattery and said, ‘If you don’t do it, I won’t do it, but it could be really funny.’ He goes, ‘Why wouldn’t we do it?’” Asked how it felt to see himself back in the Emmy-winning role that made his name for the first time since the Mad Men finale in 2015, Hamm replied: “I look at pictures now and God, I’m, like, 20 pounds heavier, 10 years older, and it’s just like, yuck. You’re just like, ‘Oh s***, I can do this.’” Hamm also revealed that he didn’t consult Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner about taking the role, saying: “No. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Someone else wrote: “Ugh, so now we’re even putting in desperate nostalgia bait from IP’s that have NOTHING to do with the film itself or universe it’s in.this is sickening.” Criticisms were also leveled at the production design od the film, with one person writing: “The hair/wardrobe/art direction in Mad Men was stellar.