The series mad Men Leave the spectators with the dry throat and spicy eyes. Don Draper, the hero embodied by Jon Hamm, investigated the cigarettes and vessels of vodka or whiskey at an impressive pace.
Invited on Saturday at the ATX TV Festival, Jon Hamm could not avoid questions about his famous consumption of cigarettes and alcohol in the series, whose last episode was broadcast on May 17, 2015.
“I think someone has made the account,” he said, and only on the pilot, I smoked 75 cigarettes. “
“These are false cigarettes, but it simply means that there is no nicotine in it. This does not mean that you do not burn something.”
With marshmish
These fake cigarettes were aromatized with rose and marshmallow petals. That gives a quite pleasant smell. Except that to imitate the alcohol that the protagonists ingested all day, and in particular vodka-Martini, it is water with onion in which it was used.
“Oh, the breath was delicious,” Jon Hamm jokes.
“Add a drop of onion to your glass of water, then smoke another 26 fake cigarettes and it’s 9:30 am,” adds John Slatterry, who played Roger Sterling.
Some young actors, on the set have tried to smoke real cigarettes, during the pilot, Jon Hamm still says.
“And I told them: ‘Let me know how it is going’. And after three days, they were yellow and pale. It’s a very bad idea.”
Essential accessory
And if cigarettes were an essential accessory to recreate the atmosphere of this advertising agency at Madison Avenue in New York, AMC executives wondered if the characters in the series were forced to smoke
“I told myself:” Do you care about a cumin? Yes, they are obviously forced to smoke. They are addicted to cigarettes. That is a bit for what we sell them. They are very popular! “
The time of 7 seasons and 92 episodes, the spectators were passionate about the life of these “Mad Men”, these brilliant advertisers of the 1950s, capable of selling anything, even cigarettes, while the first studies on their toxicity began to emerge.
The series revealed to Jon Hamm, but also actress Elizabeth Moss (Handmaid’s tale), and Kiernan Shipka (Sabrina’s new adventures).
On May 14, the alliance against tobacco published a study that reveals that almost one in two young people said that the stages of smoking in films and series encouraged smoking.
Source: BFM TV
