Jon's Dark Past 34 Star MAY 5, 2025

FINDING HAPPINESS "I've always been kind of surviving, and only in the last 20 years or so have I been able to really participate in life in the way that my us friends [have]" Jon has mused.

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N Jon Hamm's buzzy new Apple TV+ series, Your Friends & Neighbors, the actor plays a man going through a midlife crisis. His character, Andrew Cooper, has recently split from his longtime wife (played by Amanda Peet) and just lost his high-paying hedge fund manager job, into which he'd put years of blood, sweat and tears. To cope, Coop drinks too much whiskey, mopes and ultimately turns to criminal behavior.

Jon can relate — at least to some of the questionable behavior. In 2015, the 54-year-old had just ended his Emmy-winning seven-season run as Don Draper in the critically acclaimed AMC series Mad Men, leaving him at loose ends professionally. “It doesn’t matter how awesome or successful or genre-defining, career-defining [a role is],” he recently told The New York Times of feeling adrift after the show ended. “As soon as it’s over, everyone’s like, ‘What’s next?’” He’d also broken up with his partner of 18 years, screenwriter