is giving fans a look behind the curtain of his new show.
During a recent interview on “Radio Andy,” the 55-year-old actor spoke about “Your Friends & Neighbors,” more specifically about whether he used a butt double when his backside was on-screen for “the first six and a half minutes” of a Season 2 episode.
“Its my real butt, I think,” Hamm told the host.
When asked by hosts Andy Cohen and Jonah Hill, if he did anything to prepare for the scene, Hamm joked that he didn’t do much and said that he was relying on post-production to smooth any blemishes during the editing process.
Hamm’s role as Andrew Cooper in the hit Apple TV + show is by no means his first big gig in Hollywood, but there was a time after the actor first moved to Los Angeles when he struggled to find work.
“I wasn’t working but I was auditioning like a million auditions and I kept getting called back,” he said during an appearance on “In Depth with Graham Bensinger” in July 2025. “The idea of somebody saying like, ‘Oh, I like you. You might not be for this thing, but you know, there’s there’s going to be another thing.’ And so I had that kind of feedback from casting directors and producers and directors and people like that. And I was like, ‘Okay.'”
He went on to say that “you have to have a pretty thick skin to do anything in this business” and that while there is sometimes a “rhyme or reason” to how things go, other times “you just get blind lucky.”
Hamm spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about that period of time when he was struggling to book roles, saying he “just didn’t fit.”
“I was the guy who was 25 but looked 35. Its like I fell between two barstools,” he said. “I mean, I didnt look like I was in high school when I was in high school. I dont know if it was losing my parents, but I looked older.”
He went on to explain that losing both of his parents at a younger age than most gives you “a different sensibility,” and “a different outlook or approach to life,” which makes you appear “older than your years.” Hamm’s mother died when he was about 10 and his father died when he was around 20 years old.
Hamm went on to land the lead role in the AMC series “Mad Men,” when he was 35, playing Don Draper for seven seasons from 2007 to 2015. The role earned him 12 Emmy Award nominations, including one win, as well as six with two wins.
“My friends that have parents that are still married or still alive, and its not a judgment either way, its just different,” he explained. “Its a different way of going through life, and I dont really wear it on my sleeve, but obviously Matt picked up on that, and it worked for Don Draper, for sure. There was something haunted in Don.”
He has since starred in a number of successful projects, including “Bridesmaids,” “Fargo,” “Landman” and others. When speaking about his success, Hamm has often called himself a late bloomer, telling AARP, “Ive always been a half a generation behind all my friends in everything.”
Despite success coming later in his life, he told Graham Bensinger in the 2025 podcast appearance, “I only know one way of how I’ve gotten to where I’ve gotten.”
“I can’t imagine what it would be like, especially now in an always-on kind of always hyperconnected, always oversharing way, what it would be like to have to manage success and a career and everything at in my 20s,” he said. “I know I was not prepared for it. I look at these kids who are winning awards and being exceptional, and I think I could barely do my laundry when I was in my 20s. Like I just wasn’t equipped.”
Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Hamm spent 12 years working as a waiter in St. Louis, previously tellin
