'The Morning Show' star Jon Hamm chats with The Hollywood Reporter about his close collabs. From filming with Kristen Wiig to Jennifer Aniston and Jeremy Renner, hear Hamm's best moments while filming 'Bridesmaids,' 'Top Gun: Maverick,' 'Mad Men' and more.
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00:00His first thing to me was like,
00:01do you like to do any hobbies?
00:02Do you like skydiving or flying helicopters?
00:05Or I said, no, I like to keep my feet on the ground.
00:09But that's what makes Tom Tom.
00:11Hi, it's Jon Hamm.
00:12I'm here with The Hollywood Reporter
00:13sharing some of my close collabs.
00:16♪♪
00:21Kristen Wiig.
00:22I love Kristen.
00:23I love working with Kristen.
00:25We've known each other for a long, long time
00:27and met the first time when I did Saturday Night Live.
00:30She told me she was working on a script.
00:32She didn't even really tell me what it was about,
00:34but she was like, did you ever consider being in it?
00:36I was like, yeah, I'd love to be in it, that'd be great.
00:38Kristen, whatever it is, I can't wait to do it.
00:40When we shot Bridesmaids,
00:41which is when we shot all of the beginning of the movie,
00:43the sex stuff and all the funny stuff,
00:45we had a very hard time keeping it together.
00:47But that was part of the fun of the whole shoot
00:49was that it was so silly
00:51and we were so comfortable with one another, obviously.
00:52So it was just pure, pure fun.
00:55This is so awkward.
00:56I really want you to leave,
00:57but I don't know how to say it
00:58without sounding like a dick.
01:00Oh.
01:01I think all of that joy in the making it,
01:03not just from my perspective, obviously,
01:05but from Kristen and Maya and Melissa,
01:08everybody involved in it really came through the screen.
01:10♪♪
01:16Tina Fey.
01:17Tina's another person that I got to know
01:18through Saturday Night Live.
01:19First week I was hosting,
01:20the phone rings in my dressing room in 30 Rock.
01:23Hello?
01:24We have this part for you.
01:25Do you want to do a part on the show?
01:27Oh my God.
01:28Yeah, yes, I do.
01:29Great.
01:29What is it?
01:30Well, we haven't written any episodes.
01:31Oh, okay.
01:32Again, me saying yes to something
01:33that I have no idea of what they're even doing.
01:35But unbeknownst to me,
01:36Tina had called Lorne after the read-through
01:39and said, is this guy funny?
01:40Is he any good?
01:41Because she had only seen me on Mad Men.
01:42So I got the blessing and I got to be on 30 Rock.
01:45And then over the course of our careers together,
01:48I've worked on several things,
01:50including Kimmy Schmidt and Mean Girls.
01:52And to be a part of that kind of cultural moment
01:54feels very good.
02:01Jen Aniston is another person
02:02that I've known for quite some time.
02:04I met Jen a long, long time ago,
02:06although she probably wouldn't remember it.
02:08I met her at the premiere of a movie
02:10called The Object of My Affection,
02:11which my friend Paul Rudd is starring in.
02:13It was one of the first Hollywood premieres I got to go to.
02:15That was back in the 90s.
02:16So she was still like very Friends oriented.
02:20And then when the opportunity to work together
02:22finally came up, it seemed like a no-brainer.
02:26Hi.
02:26How do you do?
02:27Pleasure to meet you.
02:28There's a mutual respect and admiration and trust
02:30and all of that wonderful stuff.
02:31So to be able to come into such a fully formed,
02:35well-oiled machine of a show
02:37that The Morning Show was at that point,
02:39populated with such incredible actors,
02:41it was a pretty nice honor.
02:47Jeremy and I got to know one another on the town.
02:50Neither one of us had sort of burst through
02:52the kind of crust of the working actor kind of situation.
02:57And we both had a blast on the town.
02:58We both had really good parts in it.
02:59Jeremy's career went, you know.
03:01So it was nice to keep that friendship up
03:03and we ended up getting a chance
03:04to work together again on Tag.
03:08Oh God.
03:11I don't understand how he came back
03:13from that unbelievable injury so quickly,
03:16but he's a lovely guy and a very good friend
03:17and a tremendous actor.
03:19And, you know, he's kind of gotten a second chance
03:21to live again.
03:22My gosh, it was devastating when we heard
03:23about this tremendous accident,
03:25but he has come through it unbelievably.
03:27So, big ups.
03:34Elizabeth and I obviously worked on Mad Men for many years
03:37and tremendous relationship on that show.
03:39Obviously Don and Peggy were invested in all of that.
03:43So now this is my fault?
03:44Well, it's not my fault.
03:45Over the course of 10 seasons of, or 10 years,
03:48seven, eight seasons of a show,
03:50you develop a shorthand with everybody.
03:52I mean, it wasn't just Elizabeth at all.
03:54It was Vinny in January and John Slattery
03:56and Bobby Morris and Christina.
03:58We all were very close over the course of that run.
04:02We made something that we were very proud of.
04:10Tom Cruise is the last movie star.
04:14A one-of-a-kind force of charisma and nature
04:19and talent and everything.
04:22To be around him is to sort of bathe
04:24in that reflected light.
04:26I was tremendously honored to get the offer
04:28to be a part of Top Gun Maverick
04:31and to be invited into that world
04:34that meant so much to me when I was a teenager
04:37and a young man,
04:38and even before I even considered being an actor,
04:40was pretty inspiring in many, many ways.
04:42Your reputation precedes you.
04:45Thank you, sir.
04:48Wasn't a compliment.
04:48Tom is very loose on set.
04:50He's very prepared and he's very serious as well,
04:52but he's also,
04:53you can tell that he very much enjoys
04:56what he does for a living.
04:57He loves being on set.
04:59He loves engaging with people.
05:00He loves having conversations.
05:02He loves to find out about people and have,
05:04you know, what are you into?
05:06His first thing to me was like,
05:07do you like to do any hobbies?
05:09Do you like skydiving or flying helicopters?
05:11I said, no, I like hiking and tennis.
05:14So I like to keep my feet on the ground,
05:17but that's what makes Tom, Tom.
05:18You know, he is a full tilt representation
05:22of what it is to be pure charisma.
05:29Jamie Foxx exudes talent in everything he does.
05:34He's a tremendous energy on set,
05:36working on Baby Driver with Jamie.
05:38Obviously we had a lot of dangerous
05:39sort of choreography and things,
05:40and so you really wanted to feel comfortable
05:42around everybody that you were on set with.
05:43And Jamie was the consummate professional,
05:46and not only so good and so fun and funny,
05:49but just loose, you know,
05:50he would bring his bipod or whatever
05:52and just kind of keep music going
05:54and everybody would be in a good mood.
05:55A friend of mine described Jamie
05:56as the mayor of every room he walks into,
05:58and that's sort of tracks.
06:01I feel like I'm always learning.
06:03I watch people.
06:04Part of doing what we do is understanding
06:07that a lot of people do things differently
06:10and there's a lot of ways to get to the finish line.
06:12People can find their own way to their truths
06:15and hopefully interesting permutations
06:18and combinations of what can be.
06:21That's the fun part of it,
06:22is sort of figuring out what it's gonna be like
06:25and then enjoying it while you get the chance to do it.
06:28It won't be too long before the computers
06:29take all our jobs away,
06:31so we might as well enjoy it while we can.
06:34This has been Jon Hamm.
06:35Nice talking with you, Hollywood Reporter.
06:37See you next time.