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Newsweek Europe
|April 18, 2025
IF THERE’S ANYONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO PLAY A WEALTHY MAN WITH A secret, it’s Jon Hamm. From Mad Men's Don Draper to Andrew Cooper turning to a life of crime to maintain his lavish lifestyle in his new series Your Friends and Neighbors (Apple TV+), Hamm knows.

“I’m really good casting for this, if I do say so myself,” Hamm laughs, “absurd wealth is what we're looking at here,” and the secrets its pursuit can reveal. “Late-stage capitalism and rampant materialism, and what does it really mean? Why are we measuring ourselves against other people using the metric of just who has a bigger pile of stuff?” While he knows “not everybody can resonate with having to make their $300,000 mortgage” like his character, “people can certainly identify with losing their job through no fault of their own.” Between Mad Men and some of his Emmy-nominated work on The Morning Show, Fargo and Landman, Hamm is confident that he's “earned my p
This story is from the April 18, 2025 edition of Newsweek Europe.
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