Looks pretty cool in those jeans despite the fact that it’s 113 degrees in Hollywood today! 113! Yikes! It’s 80 here, and I still turned the AC on.

Love him! Mad Men has been so good this season!

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Jon Hamm is one of the sexiest leading men in Hollywood right now. He plays the sexy ad-man Don Draper on AMC’s Mad Men.

He landed the Golden Globe-winning role when he was cast to play the lead character. But he admits, he was not their first choice. “I was on the bottom of everyone’s list.” He had read the script and fallen in love with the part: did he know Don would eventually be his? “I really really really wanted to do it and really really really responded to the character. And really really felt like I had a handle on it and fit the part well, for whatever reason. I knew it was an enormous risk for the network to put all their chips on… certainly no celebrity of any kind. No name to promote.”

Does Hamm understand Draper? “Well, I’m an actor. A big part of acting is subverting who you are in the service of a character. So I understand that. And the similarities between mine and Don’s life are well documented. Growing up as a bit of a wanderer, finding my own way, making my own story… Losing my parents early on, albeit not as dramatically and tragically as Don.”

When Jon Hamm was 10 years old his mother died, suddenly, of stomach cancer. Hamm went to live with his father, who had divorced his mother when he was two. “To lose a parent at 10 – which is young, though not unprecedented – it means you understand, at a very early age, what permanence is.”

And then, 10 years later, when Hamm was studying English at the University of Texas, his father died. “I was… unmoored by that. But I was very fortunate to have really good friends in my life whose parents sort of rallied: ‘We’re gonna help this kid out, because otherwise there’s going to be trouble…’”

“I struggled with chronic depression. I was in bad shape. I knew I had to get back in school and back in some kind of structured environment and… continue.”

What helped? “Work.”

Therapy? “I did do therapy and antidepressants for a brief period, which helped me. Which is what therapy does: it gives you another perspective when you are so lost in your own spiral, your own bullshit. It helps. And honestly? Antidepressants help! If you can change your brain chemistry enough to think: ‘I want to get up in the morning; I don’t want to sleep until four in the afternoon. I want to get up and go do my shit and go to work and…’ Reset the auto-meter, kick-start the engine!”

Hamm also talks about how he makes his relationship work with longtime girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt. After dating for twelve years, how do they still make it work? “We just… really love each other.”

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I’m totally excited to see this movie, I think it looks really good! Ben Affleck hit the red carpet without wife, Jennifer Garner, while Mad Men hottie Jon Hamm brought longtime girlfriend, actress Jennifer Westfeldt. Also on the red carpet was Ben’s best friend, Matt Damon and his pregnant wife Luciana. Also pictured, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively and Jeremy Renner.

PS: Love Blake Lively’s dress!

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After years of struggling, Jon Hamm finally arrived with Mad Men, creating a style icon who’s come to help us rediscover our lost masculine cool. He is…THE LAST ALPHA MALE.

Mad Men’s Jon Hamm appears on the October cover of Details Magazine where he discusses that in high school he played sports as much as he acted, but something kept pulling him back to performing. He says, “I never minded standing up and looking like an idiot, which is tremendously helpful in this industry.” After years of struggling to make it in Hollywood, the feels lucky that his “overnight success” took as long as it did saying, “Absolutely, I don’t know how the Twilight kids or Miley Cyrus handle it. You make one bad decision and people in Thailand Twitter about it.” Speaking of Twitter, Hamm’s new movie The Town might not appeal to those who spend their days updating their status. “It’s almost like an old Hollywood movie. It’s got a love story, it’s got a crime element, but it’s very much for adults,” says Hamm. “There’s not a lot of candy for the Twitter-obsessed. It just deals with adult shit- no werewolves, no vampires. Yet … they’re retooling it for 3D.”

More highlights from the article:

Hamm arrived in Hollywood just in time for the reign of the CW and the WB. “If you didn’t look 18 years old, you weren’t working. And I didn’t look 18 years old when I was 18. I always looked 10 years older than I was.”

“L.A. represents opportunity. And, as has been proven over and over in the current media landscape, it doesn’t take much for them to put you on TV. If that’s all you want you can just be on The Bachelor or The Real Housewives or whatever show just wants oversized personalities, ridiculous behavior and zero dignity.”

“When you try to learn how to act, you approach it with respect. But if you just want to be famous…that’s not much different than porn. ‘I’m a movie star!’ Well, no, no you’re not. You’re a porn star, and that’s completely different.”

“One of the greatest pleasures of the job,” says Mad Men creator Matt Weiner, “has been to see Jon create the character of Don Draper. He’s smart, deep, and a natural leader. I can’t imagine making the show without him.”

Sarah Silverman, who met Hamm in 2000 through a group of friends, said, “When I turned in to Mad Men, I couldn’t believe he was this smoldering, brooding, sexual man. I was like ‘Oh my God—that’s Hamm!’ To me, he’s just this super-silly idiot. He’s one of those very few actors who are comedian-compatible.” Hamm played a cable guy on Silverman’s Comedy Central Show in 2007.

More from Details!

Director/actor Ben Affleck, actors Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner arrive for the screening of “The Town” at the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy yesterday.

Ben is looking fine!

Jon Hamm may look good playing Don Draper, but don’t think he’s anything like his character. ‘I don’t really have that much in comparison to the way Don holds himself,’ Hamm explained.

‘I’m not that guy. I don’t really look like that.’

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the cast of the Emmy Award-winning series offered their thoughts on the characters they play on the hit show.

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