Jon Hamm: "I Don't Really Look Like" Don Draper
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Old-school handsome actor Jon Hamm is feeling modest in the new issue of Rolling Stone, out Wednesday.
Although he cuts a sharp figure in 60s-era suits as dashing (and philandering) advertising exec Don Draper on Emmy-winning show Mad Men, Hamm says it's all an illusion.
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"I don't really have that much in comparison to the way Don holds himself," Hamm, 39, tells the mag. "I'm not that guy. I don't really look like that."
January Jones, who plays his frosty onscreen wife Betty on the show, says she "need not to think about my character...Betty is so blissfully ignorant in certain ways, so I feel like I should be too."
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Also in the cover story -- featuring stunning behind-the-scenes snaps -- curvy actress Christina Hendricks says her character, Joan Holloway, deals with "horrific things" on the show. "She consistently pulls it together, cleans it up and moves forward. Sometimes she's walking through mud, but she does."
At Sunday's Emmy Awards, the acclaimed retro series won the coveted Best Drama Series trophy for the third year in a row.
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5He is so gorgeous
he can be insecure weasely actor guy during the day as long as he comes home at night and takes charge as Mr Draper
I agree when I see him in interviews, etc he doesn't have that same appeal - he really does carry himself in a much different way as Draper. And it's SEXY!! And Cory, I agree that it's annoying that they have to put an adjective before every actresses name, but Christina is not BIG. that chick from precious is big. Rosie O'Donnell is big. the only thing big on christina is her boobs.
He does interestingly morph for that character. When he's in other things, it doesn't look quite like him. Christina Hendricks isn't curvy, she's bulky and oddly shaped. Curvy is a great word and shouldn't be used as a euphemism for big. Why even lead her name with an adjective at all
Is it just me or does this show remind anyone of a more sophisticated version of Melrose Place? There are so many soap operatic elements in it.