He didn’t justwait tablesthough.

Not as a performer, but as a set dresser.

He toldEsquirehow it happened.

Jon Hamm

His friend told him, “‘you’re free to have my job.

I’m doing set dressing.’

I said, ‘I don’t know how to do that.’

Jon Hamm

She says, ‘It’s not that hard.

They’ll hire anybody.’

She says, ‘It’s just soul-crushing for me.

I can’t do it.'”

He went on, saying, “‘Soul-crushing: That sounds amazing.

I’ll do it.’

And she’s like, ‘It’s for these Skinemax soft-core titty movies.’

I asked, ‘What do you do?’

Do whatever they want you to do.’

I went in the following Monday and said, ‘I’m the new set dresser.’

Literally, no one blinked.”

He confirmed that it indeed was a soul-crushing and boring job (viaEsquire).