“It was one of those things where I had auditioned for this person and this network over and over and over again, as one does, and for whatever reason, didn’t get the part.”
Jon Hamm Was Asked To “Name Names” After Revealing That A Major Network Executive Said He’d “Never Be A Television Star”
Talking about the incident in more detail, the actor said his team didn’t actually tell him about it until “much later in the history of things.”“It was one of those things where I had auditioned for this person and this network over and over and over again, as one does, and for whatever reason didn’t get the part, and didn’t get the part, and didn’t get the part,” he said, looking back. “It would always come down to the last two, me and the guy who’s going to get it.
Of course, Jon proved the network executive wrong by becoming not only a television star, but the lead star of one of theturn as Don Draper did present issues in terms of typecasting, meaning he had to go above and beyond to break out of the mold.“Every script I got was a cigarette and a hat and a cocktail or something,” he said.
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