“ It was one of those things where I had auditioned for this person and this meshing over and over and over again , as one does , and for whatever reason , did n’t get the part . ”
Jon Hammhas very much succeeded in proving his doubters wrong.
Taking part inThe Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actor Roundtable, Jon — along with Matt Bomer, David Oyelowo,Clive Owen, Callum Turner, andNicholas Galitzine— was asked to comment on “the funniest or strangest feedback” he’d ever received or heard about himself during his career.
“I had a head of this television network tell my representatives, actually, that Jon Hamm will never be a television star,” he said, prompting intrigue from his peers who asked him to “spill the tea.”
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.”
Of course, Jon proved the network executive wrong by becoming not only a television star, but the lead star of one of themost highly acclaimed TV shows of all time,Mad Men.
DespiteMad Men’s success, however, Jon said during the roundtable that hisEmmy award-winningturn as Don Draper did present issues in terms of typecasting, meaning he had to go above and beyond to break out of the mold.
You can findThe Hollywood Reporter’s full Drama Actor Roundtablehere.
