Jon Hamm recalls ‘out-of-body experience’ meeting Tom Cruise for 1st time

Jon Hamm calls meeting Tom Cruise for the first time an “out-of-bodyexperience.”

While he had a role in the megahit Top Gun: Maverick, hamm __ said onMonday’s Howard Stern Show that he actually met the superstar a decadeearlier at a kegger at Jimmy Kimmel’s house.

Hamm said Kimmel was known for throwing all-day football viewing parties withbig groups of people. “They’d have a keg and he’d make pizzas,” he said. “Itwas LA so it’s sunny and games start at 10 in the morning.”

Early on at this party — attended by actors, comedy writers and comics — a> rumor swirled that Cruise was going to be in attendance. Hamm recalled being> doubtful: “No he’s not. What are you talking about? That’s like saying Santa> Claus coming. There’s no way and you’re an idiot if you believe that. And> Jimmy, famously, is a very big prankster.”

The doorbell soon rank and none other than Cruise rolled in — and he wasn’talone.

“It’s not a Tom Cruise impersonator, it is Tom Cruise — with his mom,” Hammsaid, referring to Mary Lee South, who died in 2017. “So we got Tom Cruise andMom Cruise and we’re all having an out- of-body experience.Arguably the mostfamous person on the planet is in this living room watching nine footballgames at once [with us].”

On top of it, Cruise turned out to be a big fan of Hamm’s work in _Mad Men_which ran from 2007 to 2015.

“He was like — in a very Tom Cruise way, very direct and intense — ‘I love_that show. I _love that show,'” he recalled. “‘Thanks man.’ holy cow. Thatwas a good day.”

Fast-forward 10 years when Hamm was driving and got a call from his agent thatCruise wanted him for the Top Gun sequel. He said yes on the spot — eventhough the finances hadn’t been worked out.

“‘The answer is yes. If this goes away, you’re all fired,'” he recalledtelling his agent with a laugh. He called it a “no brainer” to say yes — notjust because he was offered the role on the spot, but because he loved theoriginal and he’d get to work with Cruise. “The answer is yes, I’m sure itwill be a big hit” he recalled saying, “and it was.”

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It’s been a few years since his Emmy-winning run as Don Draper in Mad Man.> He went on to clear up a long-running rumor, going back nearly a decade,> about whether he wore underwear for his role playing the ’60s ad man. There> were rumors show brass had to tell him to put on underwear because he had> been revealing too much below his waist by going commando. For years, Hamm> made it clear he wasn’t having a public conversation about his private parts> — and typically in an impatient and unamused way.

When Stern asked about “the most famous rumor” about Hamm — “the whole penisthing” — Hamm laughed along — because of course Stern was going to ask.

“The whole penis thing,” Hamm laughed at the question. He finally answered, “Ihave worn underwear every single day of my life, Howard. First of all: Whodoesn’t wear underwear?! I wear underwear… I love a comfy boxer brief. Thankyou very much. I like a breathable cotton. Come on man, who doesn’t?”

Hamm also talked about being in a relationship with Anna Osceola, who appearedin the Mad Men series final. He said, after doing a lot of therapy in recentyears, processing early loss and grief in his life, he has could see himselfgetting married some day.

“I’m in a relationship right now … and it’s comfortable,” he said. “It’s afeeling of taking care of someone else and being taken care of. It’s also beena process of working on myself, my mental health all this stuff with mytherapist and unpacking all of that trauma, my realizing that when you losesomebody that’s so important to you — like a mother — so early,” which he didat age 10, “that creates a wound that blocks a lot of that emotionalaccessibility … and vulnerability.”

He continued, “It’s only been in the last couple of years of me kind ofsitting down and really thinking about all that stuff that’s made therelationship that I’m in now even more meaningful and opened up thepossibility of things like being married, having kids, defining a new versionof happiness, life, wellness — all that stuff that sounds hokey and whateverbut it’s real and … it’s what I’m working for.”