Jon Hamm hasn’t ever been one to shy clear of reinvention. Greater than a decade after Mad Men cemented his position as one among tv’s maximum magnetic main males, the 55-year-old actor is taking part in lifestyles that feels now not simplest expansive, however deeply pleasing, and, most likely unusually, he credit that sense of contentment to growing old.

After Mad Men wrapped in 2015, Jon seamlessly transitioned right into a string of standout roles, from Fargo’s chilling sheriff to the charismatic tech billionaire reverse Jennifer Aniston in 

The Morning Display, or even a brilliantly self-aware flip as “Jon Hamm” in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Now, he’s again on our monitors in Your Buddies & Neighbors, with season two premiering April 3 on Apple TV, the place he performs disgraced hedge fund supervisor Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a person quietly unravelling at the back of the shiny façade of suburban wealth.

But whilst his on-screen characters incessantly combat with dissatisfaction underneath good fortune, Jon himself turns out to have reached a much more non violent position. “When you’ve made it this some distance, you’re doing one thing proper,” he tells AARP’s Movies for Grownups, in a refreshingly candid mirrored image on lifestyles in his mid-50s.

For Jon, getting old isn’t one thing to withstand,  it’s one thing to have fun. “I’m very fortunate. I am getting to do what I’ve all the time sought after to do at, I feel, the best possible degree. I nonetheless admire it each day. I nonetheless love going to paintings,” he says. “So for me, getting old is a laugh, in truth. I’ve loved it. I’ve earned it.”

It’s a standpoint that feels an increasing number of uncommon in an trade incessantly obsessive about early life, however Jon’s profession trajectory tells its personal tale. A long way from slowing down, he’s operating with one of the most maximum influential names in movie and tv as of late.

“It feels nice,” he says of getting old in Hollywood. “I am getting to paintings with one of the most largest folks in my industry this present day, and I’m very lucky, whether or not it’s Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, or Noah Hawley, Amanda Peet, Tom Cruise, Billy Bob Thornton… the record is going on and on.”

That sense of gratitude runs via a lot of Jon’s outlook, formed partly via the demanding situations he confronted early in lifestyles. Having misplaced each his oldsters ahead of the age of 20, he credit the steerage of others round him with serving to him navigate the ones adolescence.

“I’ve had super recommendation over the process my lifestyles,” he stocks. “Now and again unhealthy issues occur, however should you let the ones issues outline you, then you definitely’re going to finally end up wallowing in the ones issues. Lifestyles is set rising and experiencing new issues. Lifestyles is concerning the long run, now not concerning the previous.”

Jon lately printed that he’s able to take the next move in his lifestyles and develop into a father for the primary time as he expressed his need to have kids together with his spouse Anna, 37. 

Prior to he met Anna, Jon admitted closing yr that he “did not take a look at marriage as a factor” following his oldsters’ divorce, however since he changed into a husband, he “hopes [their marriage] becomes youngsters”. 

“I can be the outdated dad, however so it is going,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter. “It is usually a excellent factor. We will see.” 

Talking of the way “terrified” he used to be to suggest to Anna, Jon defined: “Clearly, my oldsters weren’t married lengthy, so I would not have a type to take a look at and move, ‘Oh, that is how one reveals happiness.’ 

“I simply knew at a definite level I sought after to be with this individual. But if I proposed, I used to be terrified. I used to be like, ‘What am I doing?'” 

He added: “I simply take note feeling, ‘That is truly frightening.’ Then going, ‘Smartly, it most likely way it’s profitable.'”