Jon Hamm feared Rob Lowe would snag his Mad Men role after a disappointing West Wing audition

[hewontgo]

Jon Hamm really wanted to play Sam Seaborn on 'The West Wing,' but Rob Lowe won the part. He worried that Lowe would play Don Draper on 'Mad Men' too. https://t.co/Y3e41s6x8h
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) June 19, 2024
Hamm worried that he would lose out on the job quite possibly to Rob Lowe, who had snapped up another part that he really wanted,

Comments

[raisedawolf]

i did not read the post bc i was too distracted by whatever the fuck is happening with rob lowe’s chin. 😱

[therearewords]

Cut and sucked.

[lamppost1911]

I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion but I could see Jon Hamm as Sam. Not the way Rob played it, but they'd change/shift the character to align more with Jon Hamm's vibes. But then that would change the whole chemistry with the other characters.

In the same breath, I don't see Rob Lowe as Don at all. As much as Matthew Weiner annoys me, his reasoning is what I would have thought as well.

[ellie_andrews]

agreed about Rob as Don. and i just can't see him bringing the same depth tbh.

[mwffj]

Damn, what could have been. Because sorry not sorry but Josh Malina with his big, innocent, doe eyes was not it for replacing Sam Seaborn.

[komnene]

Rob Lowe is a dick but Sam was actually such a good ingredient in the ensemble. If he could have just kept his shit together - what could have been. I wonder which way the show would have gone had he have stayed.

[belle_chouette]

girl it's been 25 years since that show premiered, you got nothing else to talk about

[frankthesheep]

I was the guy who was 25 but looked 35.

lol