As we climbed on the path in Griffith Park, Jon Hamm watched the brush crest on our left. From our point of view, the ridgeline has drawn a clean horizon, uninterrupted by cellular towers or modern palaces in the middle of the century. He nodded towards a man sitting there alone.
“Do you see this guy sitting there?” He asked. I watched: the guy could have meditated or having a Don Draper for a moment, dreaming of the next big Coca-Cola campaign.
For Hamm, the image of the man brought him back to 2017 when he first moved to the Hollywood hills. His career role and winner of an Emmy as a draper in the drama AMC “Mad Men” had ended two years earlier, just like a romantic 18 -year -old partnership. According to most of the accounts, including hers, a difficult period of transition.
“I was recently single-I said to myself, I just had to focus again on myself,” he recalls with an apparent melancholy. “And I just made this walk, every day”, at the top of this ridge, then back to his house, memorizing lines along the way.
Finally, he started to settle in his new house, his new neighborhood, his new rhythm. He turned a corner, pushed forward.
