“Sorry, my dog is escaping,” said Jon Hamm to IndieWire, breaking off an answer midway through a phone interview. “I just opened the door and he went for it.” The Hollywood heavyweight is managing a lot these days.
Formerly known as Don Draper from “Mad Men,” the A-list actor is juggling two Emmy nominations against the backdrop of his ever-boiling film career. The multi-faceted bad guys who Hamm plays — Sheriff Roy Tillman in FX’s “Fargo” Season 5 and billionaire tech mogul Paul Marks in Apple TV +’s “The Morning Show” Season 3 — earned the versatile performer nods for both Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. The Television Academy has recognized Hamm with 18 nominations (and one win) to date, but this is the fourth year he’s been nominated for two parts simultaneously.
“The pressure of any kind of award stuff is baked in,” Hamm said, when asked if dual-wielding puts more or less pressure on awards night. “It’s an intense thing. It’s a lot of run-up to it, so that sort of naturally amplifies what the meaning of the evening can be, but it’s also self-generated.
I learned a long time ago not to put too much emphasis on those things ’cause they are a bit arbitrary in some way.” Hamm won his only Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for AMC’s “Mad Men” in 2015. That year, he was also recognized as a nominee for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series tha.