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'The Morning Show' star Jon Hamm chats with The Hollywood Reporter about his close collabs. From filming with Kristen Wiig to Jennifer Aniston and Jeremy Renner, hear Hamm's best moments while filming 'Bridesmaids,' 'Top Gun: Maverick,' 'Mad Men' and more.

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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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