‘Howl’ star Jon Hamm: No beard secret -- just being lazy
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I’ve made no bones about my obsession with Jon Hamm‘s facial hair (this predates the Golden Globes beard bonanza, mind you).
A little dream came true Friday when I caught up with the actor at Stella Artois’ the Cutting Room, where he was promoting his Sundance flick ‘Howl.’
‘It’s one of those things where I really wish it was on purpose,’ he laughed, ‘but it’s just me being lazy.’
As I previously told you, the scruff started for his character in Ben Affleck‘s just-wrapped ‘The Town.’
‘That was meticulously cultivated scruff. When you’re on a set for two months and they decide that your character is unshaven, it becomes this whole ordeal, hours and hours every day,’ he said.
Come spring -- Hamm anticipates an April start for the fourth season of ‘Mad Men’ -- he’ll shave it off and get back into Don Draper’s well-tailored suits.
Hamm plays lawyer Jake Ehrlich opposite James Franco‘s Allen Ginsberg in ‘Howl.’ Check back later for my Sundance sit-down with SNL-frequenter Franco himself.
-- Matt Donnelly
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