00:00His first thing to me is like, do you like to do any hobbies? Do you like, you know, skydiving or
00:04flying helicopters? Or I said, no, I like to keep my feet on the ground. But that's what makes Tom
00:11Tom. Hi, it's Jon Hamm. I'm here with the Hollywood Reporter sharing some of my close collabs.
00:21Kristen Wiig. I love Kristen. I love working with Kristen. We've known each other for a long,
00:26long time and met the first time I did Saturday Night Live. She told me she was working on a
00:32script. She didn't even really tell me what it was about, but she was like, oh, did you ever
00:35consider being in it? I was like, yeah, I'd love to be in it. That'd be great. Kristen, whatever it is,
00:38I'll happy, I can't wait to do it. When we shot Bridesmaids, which is when we shot all of the
00:42beginning of the movie, the sex stuff and all the funny stuff, and we had a very hard time keeping
00:46it together. But that was part of the fun of the whole shoot was that it was so silly and we were
00:51so comfortable with one another, obviously. So it was just pure, pure fun. Wow, this is so
00:56awkward. I really want you to leave, but I don't know how to say it without sounding like a dick.
01:00Oh. I think all of that joy in the making it, not just from my perspective, obviously, but from
01:05Kristen and Maya and Melissa, everybody involved in it really came through the screen.
01:16Tina Fey. Tina's another person that I got to know through Saturday Night Live. First week I was
01:20hosting, the phone rings in my dressing room in 30 Rock. Hello, we have this part for you. Do you want
01:25to do a part on the show? Oh my God. Yeah. Yes, I do. Great. What is it? Well, we haven't written
01:30any episode. Oh, okay. Again, me saying yes to something that I have no idea of what they're even
01:35doing. But unbeknownst to me, Tina had called Lauren after the read-through and said, is this guy
01:39funny? Is he any good? Because she had only seen on Mad Men. So I got the blessing and I got to be on 30
01:45Rock. And then over the course of our careers together, I've worked on several things, including
01:50Kimmy Schmidt and Mean Girls. And to be a part of that kind of cultural moment feels very good.
02:00Jen Aniston is another person that I've known for quite some time. I met Jen a long, long time ago,
02:06although she probably wouldn't remember it. I met her at the premiere of a movie called The Object
02:11of My Affection, which my friend Paul Rudd is starring in. It was one of the first Hollywood
02:14premieres I got to go to. That was back in the 90s. So she was still like very friends-oriented.
02:20And then when the opportunity to work together finally came up, it seemed like a no-brainer.
02:26Hi. How do you do? Pleasure to meet you. There's a mutual respect and admiration and trust and all of
02:30that wonderful stuff. So to be able to come into such a fully formed, well-oiled machine of a show
02:36that The Morning Show was at that point, populated with such incredible actors, was a pretty nice honor.
02:44Jeremy and I got to know one another on The Town. Neither one of us had sort of burst through
02:52the kind of crust of the working actor kind of situation. And we both had a blast on The Town.
02:58We both had really good parts in it. Jeremy's career went, you know, so it was nice to keep
03:02that friendship up. And we ended up getting a chance to work together again on Tag.
03:08Oh, God.
03:09I don't understand how he came back from that unbelievable injury so quickly, but he's a
03:16lovely guy and a very good friend and a tremendous actor. And, you know, he's kind of gotten a
03:20second chance to live again. My gosh, it was devastating when we heard about this tremendous
03:24accident, but he has come through it unbelievably. So big ups.
03:28Elizabeth and I obviously worked on Mad Men for many years and tremendous relationship on
03:39that show. Obviously, Don and Peggy, we're like, we're invested in all of that.
03:43So now this is my fault?
03:44Well, it's not my fault.
03:45Over the course of 10 seasons of, or 10 years, seven and eight seasons of a show, you develop
03:51a shorthand with everybody. I mean, it was just Elizabeth at all. It was Vinny and January
03:55and John Slattery and Bobby Morris and Christina. And we all were very close over the course
04:00of that run. We were made something that we were very proud of.
04:10Tom Cruise is the last movie star. He is a one of a kind force of charisma and nature and
04:20talent and everything. To be around him is to sort of bathe in that reflected light. I
04:26was tremendously honored to get the offer to be a part of Top Gun Maverick and to be invited
04:33into that world that meant so much to me when I was a teenager and a young man and even before
04:38I even considered being an actor. It was pretty inspiring in many, many ways.
04:42Your reputation precedes you. Thank you, sir. Wasn't a compliment.
04:48Tom is very loose on set. He's very prepared and he's very serious as well, but he's also,
04:53you can tell that he very much enjoys what he does for a living. He loves being on set.
04:59He loves engaging with people. He loves having conversations. He loves to find out about people
05:03and have, you know, what are you into? His first thing to me is like, do you like to do
05:08any hobbies? Do you like skydiving or flying helicopters? I said, no, I like hiking and
05:13tennis. So I like to keep my feet on the ground, but that's what makes Tom Tom. You know, he is a
05:19full tilt representation of what, what it is to be pure charisma.
05:29Jamie Foxx exudes talent in everything he does. He's a tremendous energy on set working on Baby
05:37Driver with Jamie. Obviously we had a lot of dangerous sort of choreography and things. And
05:40so you really wanted to feel comfortable around everybody that you were on set with. And Jamie
05:44was the consummate professional and not only so good and so fun and funny, but just loose,
05:50you know, he would bring his bipod or whatever, and just kind of keep music going and everybody
05:54would be in a good mood. A friend of mine described Jamie as the mayor of every room he walks into.
05:58And that's sort of tracks. I feel like I'm, I'm always learning. I watch people part of,
06:05part of doing what we do is understanding that a lot of people do things differently. And there's
06:10a lot of ways to get to the, to the finish line. People can find their own way to their truce and,
06:15uh, hopefully interesting permutations and combinations of what can, what can be. That's
06:22the fun part of it is sort of figuring out what it's going to be like and then enjoying it while you
06:27get a chance to do it. Won't be too long before the computers take all our jobs away. So we might as
06:32well enjoy it while we can. This has been Jon Hamm. Nice talking with you, Hollywood Reporter. See you
06:37next time.
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