Sunday, April 15, 2018

Jon Hamm Is Ready to Break Free From Don Draper

 
 
What do you do when the thing that brought you success is what you need to leave behind?
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Jon Hamm Is Ready to Break Free From Don Draper
 
Jon Hamm has arranged for us to meet for breakfast at what must be one of Vancouver's most opulent hotel restaurants. All wood-and-gold midcentury mod, it's the sort of place Don Draper, the hard-drinking, never-not-dashing Eisenhower-era adman Hamm played on Mad Men, would frequent—that is, if he were Canadian, lived in the 21st century, and had a soft spot for nouvelle cuisine.

Hamm arrives looking less than Draper-iffic. It's not likely that he's hungover—he had a stint in rehab for alcohol abuse three years ago—but he's battling the onset of a cold. His outfit is a triumph of comfort over style, perhaps best described as Rejected L.L. Bean Model: broken-in dad jeans, running shoes with miles on them, and a shawl-collared wool sweater the fishermen working on the freighter ships docked in Vancouver Bay would probably dig. Either Hamm is in the early stages of growing a beard or he woke up the last couple mornings, looked at his razor, and thought, Screw it.

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