Jon Hamm Shares What Makes His Marriage Work

Ryan D'AgostinoThu, April 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC

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Jon Hamm Knows the Secret to a Happy MarriageMichael Schwartz / trunkarchive.

On Your Friends & Neighbors, he’s the coolest thief on television. When he’s just Jon Hamm, he’s thoughtful, candid…and, yes, still extremely cool.

Below, he shares what he’s learned from Coop, what marriage has taught him, and the remake he’d love to star in.

The world of Your Friends & Neighbors is built on deception. Is it ever okay to lie in real life?

Sure. I think we all find ourselves in those situations where we have to bend the truth to make something more palatable. I mean, I was a teacher, man. You gotta pick your battles. You can massage the truth to make people feel a little bit better. Because, of course, we all knew that kid in college who was like, “I’m just a truth-teller, man!” No, you’re just a dick.

The show just keeps getting better. What have you learned from your kleptomaniac character, Coop?

A lot of us are thinking about late-stage capitalism. I think it’s a natural endgame for our society: If all of our energy is put toward acquiring these things, what are we really doing in this pursuit of quote-unquote happiness? I don’t know if the show has a great answer for that, because I don’t know if there is an answer to it. And Coop’s jumping off one treadmill and onto another that has spikes on the end of it. I think knowing what I know about Season 3, he’s got to figure it out sooner rather than later.

Coop has an interesting relationship with marriage. What has marriage taught you?

It’s a new set of skills, mostly communication. Having come out of a long relationship that was not a marriage, then being single and figuring out life in my late 40s, and then being in a relationship again and what that all means—compromise and communication and all the things that you have to relearn, or reteach yourself—it doesn’t come overnight. It’s a practice that you have to get better at. It doesn’t come without mistakes and failures, but it’s based on love and a willingness to say, ‘I’ve gotta be able to do better than this, so I need to figure out how I’ve been less-than and work on it.’ And that’s going to therapy and couples therapy, asking, ‘Is it me, is it them, or is it us?’ And it gets better.

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Hamm in Your Friends & Neighbors.Jon PackWhat percentage of the time are women right?

I think they’re right exactly the same percentage of the time that men are. It’s not a competition. They’re right when they’re right and they’re wrong when they’re wrong. And your job, as a member of a couple or a partnership, is to remind the other person that two things can be true sometimes, and that we’re all trying to get through as best we can.

Is it nice to not have to date anymore?

God, with all the apps and all the shit, which I never engaged with even when I was single, it’s pretty bleak. It’s just another indictment of social media. It feels transactional. It feels like it highlights the wrong part of dating and meeting people. I’m looking at a fucking picture and deciding whether they’re worthwhile? It just feels a little dark. I was never really good at dating anyway, so I’m glad to not be out in the world, as it were.

What female singer do you always want to hear?

Sinéad O’Connor’s amazing. I find her voice haunting, soothing, and inspiring all at the same time. And until Stranger Things ruined Kate Bush, I listened to a lot of Kate Bush. And I really like this band called Rilo Kiley. Jenny Lewis is the frontwoman. I’ve got a couple of friends in that band.

If you could star in any remake, what would it be?

Die Hard. How cool would that be? I was raised on ’80s action movies. That stuff is my love language.

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