"I seem to be the go-to douchebag," Hamm grins. As Ted, he is the handsome breaker of hearts, in more of a laughable fashion than Draper's inbuilt 60s misogyny, but with that same disregard for monogamy that the Mad Men lead so excels in. His character in Bridesmaids, however, is not entirely dissimilar to that of rakish Draper. Playing a character like Don Draper tends to colour people's interpretations of you …" "You're talking about my penis, right?" he quips as quickly as the words "funny bone" exit my mouth. But it is Bridesmaids, which he signed up to without so much as even reading the script, that will really prove Hamm's talent at flexing his funny bone. Then there was 30 Rock, where he played Liz Lemon's love interest, Dr Drew Baird, for six episodes. He has hosted SNL three times alongside Wiig, co-creating their skits each time. It's how Hamm, 40, met his current co-star, Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live staple and writer and star of Bridesmaids, the film that brings him to London today. Perhaps surprisingly for a person who plays dour so well (as well as Mad Men, recent film outings The Town and Howl have played on his serious side), the comedy has always been there.
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While smiling may not be a characteristic of Draper, the role he has played in the extraordinarily successful US TV series Mad Men for four years, Hamm, hangovers aside, is very much a different man. He cradles a black tea, wincing every time crockery crashes in the kitchen of the backstreet London cafe we're seated in. It is 11am and this is his fourth interview of the day, starting at some ungodly hour with a baptism of bosomy fire courtesy of Lorraine Kelly and followed by a stream of ebullient radio presenters.
Dinner at The Wolseley followed by drinks back at his hotel bar have left him a bit broken. W ith bloodshot eyes, a crumpled suit and the rueful air of a man who has had one too many Martinis, Jon Hamm, just for today at least, is feeling a little Don Draper.
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