Hot Tea Tuesday | Jon Hamm

Hot Tea Tuesday – a lil’ bit of eye-candy for your Tuesday lunchtime. This week, everyone’s favourite Mad Man Jon Hamm.

With Mad Men season 5 back on our screens, we take a look at the very dapper Jon Hamm.

Hamm started his acting career at the tender age of six with a role as Winnie the Pooh. Cute. Before moving to Hollywood, he taught eighth-grade acting, with one of his students including Ellie Kemper who went on to be Hamm’s co-star in Bridesmaids.

Jon moved to Hollywood in 1995 to chase the acting dream but, after years of working as a waiter and a brief job as a set designer for a softcore pornography film, he set his thirtieth birthday as a deadline to succeed in Hollywood:
“You either suck that up and find another agent, or you go home and say you gave it a shot, but that’s the end of that. The last thing I wanted to be out here was one of those actors who’s 45 years old, with a tenuous grasp of their own reality, and not really working much. So I gave myself five years. I said, if I can’t get it going by the time I’m 30, I’m in the wrong place. And as soon as I said that, it’s like I started working right away.”

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Pre-Mad Men, Jon had bit-parts in NBC’s drama series Providence and Space Cowboys, with bigger roles in Kissing Jessica Stein, We Were Soldiers, CSI: Miami and The Unit. Hamm’s breakthrough role came in 2007 when he landed the job of Don Draper in AMC’s drama series Mad Men, despite initial concerns by director Alan Taylor and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner that he was too handsome for the role.
“I read the script for Mad Men and I loved it. I never thought they’d cast me. I mean, I thought they’d go with one of the five guys who look like me, but are movie stars.”

Mad Men returned to American tv screens with huge ratings last Sunday and season 5 debuts today on Sky Atlantic.

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