Jon Hamm Became a ‘Mentor’ to James Gandolfini’s Son Michael After His Death: ‘He’s My Buddy’

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1. > “He said, ‘My dad told me that you were a good guy,'” the Fargo star told The Hollywood Reporter, noting that he was emotional about it, and his response to Michael, now 25, was, “‘OK, let’s be friends.’ And he is. He’s my buddy.”

   > Hamm said he has since “been a bit of a mentor to him” as Michael has taken up acting, even reprising his father’s character, Tony Soprano, in the 2021 prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark.

2. Jon Hamm was 10 years old when his mom died, and 20 when his dad died. Probably understood pretty well what this kid was going through.

3. Jon Hamm has quietly become one of the few celebrities I’d be really bummed if something awful came out about him. Didn’t fully realize it until now.

4. Did he torture the guy’s genitalia like he did back to other people back in college?

5. He seems like a decent enough guy now but I will never get past the fact that in college he beat someone with a wooden paddle, set them on fire and then used a claw hammer on their genitals. That’s so sick and twisted.