John. Stefan, how are you?
Yeah. Good. Thanks, John. I'm just like, I'll call you Slatty.
Is that allowed
by Jon Hamm? No.
I'm going to begin by asking about working with Jon.
When.
When you've shared something like you guys shared, obviously a Mad Men
Does he?
It must create this kind of close bond that lasts forever.
So when you guys see each other on a set, is that this kind of familiar,
comforting feeling of, Oh, yeah, it's that guy again.
Yeah, there is.
It's yeah, it's any, you know, step on a set the first day.
It's always a little nerve wracking. You don't know anybody.
You don't know the crew, you don't know the cameraman.
So, yeah, I do.
Immediately sit down with him.
Makes it makes it very easy.
And I think that was early on in the shoot as well.
So yeah, it's just kind of a
good way to kind of relax into it.
Although all my scenes, all two of them were with him.
Yeah, I mean, I loved I loved your character and performance.
But is it a hard the skill that it's actually given credit
to have an impact of a role despite limited screen time?
Yeah, it is. It's harder, actually.
I mean, it's harder to come in and have a few lines and
not put too much pressure on yourself
or or, you know, pressure on the on the scenes themselves
to try to make an impact, you know,
than it is to sort of achieve
a, you know, the same thing over a longer series of scenes.
And, you know, the whole movie,
as I am about how familiar you are with the kind of the Fletch
books and movies, because when you're making like a TV adaptation,
is it important to try and get the other persons
Or can that be quite hard - or the other directors and filmmakers interpretation out of your mind?
And just the process is fresh.
And the films are so ingrained into kind of cinematic history as they are.
Yeah, I mean, it's been a while and it's been a while since I've seen
Fletch and, you know, big Chevy Chase fan, but
I haven't watched it in a long time and I did not read the books.
I know Hamm was a fan of the books.
So, yeah, and there was no great
burden to try to, you know, measure up, at least from my point of view.
Yeah.
What do you think it is about this character that makes him
this kind of perennial, quiet, everlasting figure in novels and on screen?
Because he was as funny then as he is now.
And I feel like you could probably do
another Fletch movie in 30 years and it's still land.
Yeah,
I think it's sort of
thumbing his nose at authority.
I think everybody finds that attractive.
And and whether it's a direct, you know,
F-you to whoever is coming at you or the way
Fletch does it, which is just to turn everything that anybody says kind of
on its ear and then in a very charming, very sort of seemingly
inoffensive way, not give them what they want.
And I loved God's pocket when I saw that a few years back.
And I know you've directed again.
Is that is that all finished up?
Is where when might be when might we be able to expect the the next one?
I love the premise of Maggie Moore's
it's not finished.
I have another two sessions. We're doing the color
timing and the titles and the last kind of finishing touches.
I don't know if you know Jon Hamm is the star of the movie.
Yeah. Yeah.
And it turned out really well.
And it's a great story. And,
you know, we'll be done within the month.
I think. So. We'll see.
We'll figure out where it's going to end up.
And and hopefully that's happened soon.
So Jon Hamm, the lead and no one is ever a risk of saying
too much of that guy.
I guess I suppose the overexposure is, you know, he's so good in this.
I mean, he's it's so different from Fletch, too.
It's so different from most of the things you ever seen him play
is kind
of a little bit rumpled and a little bit of vulnerable,
the guy's situation and and he's with playing opposite his
his in my old pal Tina Fey
and they're great together and yeah
so I'm looking forward to people getting a chance to see it.
And I can say having heart.
There's one thing that you can't have too much of. It's Jon Hamm.
So looking forward to it.
Thank you so much, Much appreciated. Thank you.