Jon Hamm interview: 'I'm the same goofy little kid from St Louis, Missouri'

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. open image in gallery Living like there’s no tomorrow: Jon Hamm as Don Draper in the final season of ‘Mad Men’ Easier said than done of course; a role like Don Draper sticks like mud. “I’m very proud of it.” open image in gallery Jon Hamm in ‘The Negotiator’ When the film was released in America – to “really nice notices” – it was under the title Beirut; now it’s been given a slightly more generic-sounding moniker, although Hamm believes it’s the sort of film that might have some traction here “because the film business in the UK isn’t driven so much by the franchise element”. But I had at that point taught for a year… I thought, ‘I could do that.’ I had a perfectly lovely time doing that.” In the end, he made it – just – winning a bit part in Clint Eastwood’s astronaut adventure Space Cowboys in 2000. open image in gallery Mad world: Jon Hamm and Matt Berry While Mad Men catapulted him into the stratosphere, it hasn’t been totally smooth sailing. You go out to dinner and people are surreptitiously taking your photo and it becomes a thing and it’s a drag.” open image in gallery Jon Hamm’s Don Draper searches for enlightenment in the final ‘Mad Men’ Now living near Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Hamm isn’t about to bemoan his lot, given his past troubles.