What role and TV show has caused Jon Hamm to become a cult figure?”
TV show: Mad Men Role: Don Draper During the first season of the show—set in Manhattan—it was dramatically revealed that Draper was orphaned as a child and is living under an assumed identity. (The second season debuts July 27.) Hamm, 37, gives glimpses into his character’s inner turmoil while maintaining the icy-suave exterior that’s made Draper a cult figure.
When “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm appears in public, he tends to look like… well, like Jon Hamm: floppy hair, contemporary clothes, affable demeanor. So it was startling when he turned up at the Television Critics Association Awards ceremony two weeks ago looking not like himself, but like his “Mad Men” alter ego Don Draper, complete with slicked-down hair and a killer suit. All that was missing from Hamm’s transformation into the iconic ’60s ad executive was a cigarette and a tumbler of bourbon. “I don’t bust it out very often,” says a sheepish Hamm. In a phone interview a few days before the Emmy-winning drama returns for its third season tonight at 10 on AMC (read my review here, and come back to the blog on Sunday night at 11 for an episode review and post-mortem with Matthew Weiner), he explains he just hates dealing with his hair, and he knows the Brylcreem look is one of the easiest (and sharpest) ways to keep it under control.
