'Don Draper would be dead': Jon Hamm doesn't think his Mad Men character would be alive today
Don Draper didn't lead the healthiest lifestyle on the popular AMC show Mad Men.
And Jon Hamm, 45, the actor who played him, doesn't think his character would be around today.
'He'd be in his 80s (now) and there ain't no way that guy is getting into his 80s without a massive lifestyle shift,' Jon explained during an interview on The Rich Eisen Show.
He'd be dead: Jon Hamm says he doesn't think his Mad Men character, Don Draper would be alive today
Unhealthy lifestyle: Don was well-known as a womanizer who had a penchant for booze and cigarettes
Don Draper was well-known as a womanizer who had a penchant for booze and cigarettes.
Hamm also confirmed the many widely believed theory that Don's zen lifestyle at the hippie retreat center on the California coast didn't stick and the moment at the end of the final episode segued into a great advertisement, not a lifestyle change.
'I don't think that stuck,' Jon explained. 'I don't think that zen moment of understanding anything really stuck.'
'He'd be in his 80s (now) and there ain't no way that guy is getting into his 80s without a massive lifestyle shift,' the actor explained during the interview
The final episode ended on an advertising high note with Don Draper seemingly realizing the biggest marketing slogan of his career: 'I'd like to buy the world a Coke.'
In the closing seconds of Mad Men, Don (Jon Hamm) sits in the lotus position on a cliff top above the Pacific Ocean, his eyes shut and seemingly at peace.
'The new day brings new hope,' says a leader of the meditation group. 'New day. New ideas. A new you.'
And then kicks in the 1971 Coca-Cola commercial 'I'd to buy the world a Coke' that showed people from around the world holding bottles of the soda and singing on cliff tops.
Impressive finale: In the closing seconds of Mad Men, Don sits in the lotus position on a cliff top above the Pacific Ocean, his eyes shut and seemingly at peace
Big inspiration? Many speculated that moment lead to the biggest moment in Don's career: when he came up with famous 1971 Coca Cola advertisement
It was a real life McCann Erickson executive who dreamed up the ad and presumably the hidden meaning is that Don is - or has become - 'the real thing.'
For his part, Jon says he liked the way the series ended.
'I thought it was a very poetic, very nice way to end the show, and also very cryptic, which sticks in the realm of the show's vocabulary anyway' he added about how the show ended. 'It's nice to talk about a show you like and now have it have to be spoon feed to you.'
But that's not necessarily what was planned from the beginning.
Creator Matthew Weiner has said he did not have a specific ending mapped out when he first came up with the concept of the series. The ending came to him about three or four years ago.
Known for the unusual secrecy surrounding all its plots, no-one involved in the show had given away how the series ends, although filming finished months ago.
The secrecy had led to rampant speculation and wishful thinking about scenarios ranging from Don and Peggy striking up a blissful romance to Draper throwing himself from a window in an echo of the show's iconic title sequence in which a businessman falling through the sky.
Satisfying: For his part, Jon says he liked the way the series ended for his character
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