Major Roles Rejected by Famous Actors
Thomas Jane – ‘Mad Men’
Jon Hamm’s star-making turn as Don Draper in AMC’s Mad Men is another one of those characters where it’s difficult to picture anybody else in the role, but Hamm wasn’t anywhere on the casting director’s radar in preproduction. They reportedly wanted Thomas Jane, who at the time was coming off some recent buzz with The Punisher and The Mist. Hamm told Marc Maron on a WTF podcast, “The casting directors didn’t know who I was. I wasn’t on anybody’s lists. The funny thing was, I think they went to Thomas Jane for it, and they were told that Thomas Jane does not do television. Now starring in [HBO’s] Hung, by the way.”
