Jon Hamm Is Ready to Break Free From Don Draper

What do you do when the thing that brought you success is what you need to leave behind? [ view in [browser](. add esquire@newsletter.esquire.com to your address book ] [Esquire]( [Sunday Reads] FOLLOW US [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Instagram]( [You Tube]( [Google Plus]( [Jon Hamm Is Ready to Break Free From Don Draper]( Jon Hamm has arranged for us to meet for breakfast at what must be one of Vancouver's most opulent hotel restaurants. All wood-and-gold midcentury mod, it's the sort of place Don Draper, the hard-drinking, never-not-dashing Eisenhower-era adman Hamm played on Mad Men, would frequent—that is, if he were Canadian, lived in the 21st century, and had a soft spot for nouvelle cuisine. Hamm arrives looking less than Draper-iffic. It’s not likely that he’s hungover—he had a stint in rehab for alcohol abuse three years ago—but he’s battling the onset of a cold. His outfit is a triumph of comfort over style, perhaps best described as Rejected L.L. Bean Model: broken-in dad jeans, running shoes with miles on them, and a shawl-collared wool sweater the fishermen working on the freighter ships docked in Vancouver Bay would probably dig. Either Hamm is in the early stages of growing a beard or he woke up the last couple mornings, looked at his razor, and thought, Screw it. [READ MORE]( [MORE FROM ESQUIRE] [Esquire]( [It's Time for You to Wear a Tracksuit. Specifically, This Tracksuit.]( The Adidas SST jacket and pants blend classic aesthetics with modern lines. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [Aaron Franklin Built the Best BBQ Joint In America By Giving a Damn]( His no-bullshit, distraction-free approach to barbecue is why he's the first chef of his kind to win a James Beard. Did we mention he doesn't eat the stuff? [Read On]( [Esquire]( [Where Every Senate Republican Stands on the Mueller Investigation]( What would Republicans do if Trump fires Mueller? Here's what they've already said about it. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [You Probably Didn't Watch SCTV, But It Shaped the Comedy You Love Today]( Netflix is reuniting its famous cast for a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [Here's Where to Get Dwayne Johnson's Badass Camo Jacket]( It's by Todd Snyder + Champion. [Read On]( [Unsubscribe]( • [Privacy Policy]( [esquire.com]( ©2018 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019