Jon Hamm Compares Don Draper to Coop With ‘Friends & Neighbors’ S2 Return
Between Mad Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, no one can down (fake) whiskey like Jon Hamm. (The “scotch” in Your Friends & Neighbors is actually iced tea or water with caramel food coloring, depending on the actor drinking it.) Though his Apple TV character Andrew Cooper prefers to drink aged scotch, Hamm — and Coop, for that matter — wouldn’t want to go all the way back to the stuff they drank midday at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The 1960s may have been groovy (though, again, not really at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce), but the liquor was shit. “Don Draper drank Canadian Club, which is sort of a bargain-basement blended rye,” Hamm’s told The Hollywood Reporter during our conversation that was ostensibly about Your Friends & Neighbors season two. “Coop drinks Macallan 25, which is like $5,000 a bottle. I’ve had both of them — Macallan is much better.” Same, except I’m pretty sure I’m personally topped out at Macallan 18. Feel free to send a 25-year-old (bottle), Apple — you’ve got the money. …
