Not a week after his Mad Men colleague John Slattery told Movieline he envied Jon Hamm’s forays into film farce, Hamm himself is weighing in on his potential for a career in comedies. He was hilarious in Bridesmaids, and hilariously hard-boiled (thanks to that “gritty” dialogue) in The Town — so why he shouldn’t he ready for marquee funny roles?
In an interview with our sister site TVLine, Hamm discussed the vista beyond Mad Men and how a certain Oscar winner remains his film world inspiration.
TVLINE | Do you foresee what your career might look like beyond Mad Men? Could you see yourself becoming a comedy movie star?
Well, I hope I get a chance to do both sides. I think that Paul [Rudd]’s career has been really fun for me to watch because he’s been able to do stuff on Broadway and he’s been able to do big movies and big comedies and produce stuff, and really kind of be the architect of his own future, and it’s been really successful for him. So, yeah, one of my acting heroes, which is such a lame term, but one of the people whose careers I look at as an inspiration is a guy like Jeff Bridges, who has been around since he was 18 years old, has done work in drama and crazy Big Lebowski comedy and now is finally getting recognized as a genius. He’s been an amazing actor for 40 years… Hopefully, life is long and a career is long, and you get an opportunity to do many things. And as you change not only as a human being, but as an actor, different roles come to you. You
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Source: http://www.celebrities.com/celebrities-gossip/jon-hamm-evaluates-his-comedy-star-potential/
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