Jon Hamm

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 22 May 2022

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For seven seasons, Jon Hamm played the hard-drinking, womanizing, 1960’s-era advertising executive Don Draper on the hit series Mad Men, a role that earned him two Golden Globe awards and an Emmy. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the actor to talk about the legacy of that show and his steady mix of comedy and drama since then, all leading up to his childhood fantasy of starring in the highly anticipated new Top Gun sequel alongside Tom Cruise.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.1	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.2	I am very excited to bring you today my conversation with one of the all-time great guys.
0:14.8	You know him, you love him from the groundbreaking series Mad Men where he starred as Don Draper
0:19.5	and now you're going to know him and love him even a little bit more, starring in the
0:23.5	new film Top Gun Maverick.
0:25.9	He is of course John Ham.
0:29.5	And John and I kind of dorked out a little bit about the fact that he's in Top Gun.
0:33.8	He was 15 years old when the original came out in 1986.
0:37.2	Of course, starring Tom Cruise as Maverick.
0:39.9	And now 36 years later, here he is, starring across from Tom Cruise in the movie he grew
0:46.2	up loving.
0:47.2	He plays a commanding officer named Cyclone who you know buts heads a little bit with Maverick
0:53.3	who turns out all these years later still a bit of a Maverick.
0:57.3	The movie is really, really good.
0:58.7	I think people are going to love it.
0:59.8	It touches that nostalgia in the right way but it's also modern, incredible flying scenes,
1:04.9	a great mission.
1:06.5	It's all there.
1:07.5	John Ham is great in it.
1:08.9	If you're thinking about going to do it, just do it.
1:11.6	It's so good.
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