How ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ gave Jon Hamm a lovable a–hole to play: ‘This is going to be something that will be resonant’

A week ago, Your Friends & Neighbors star Jon Hamm got a real inkling that his character Andrew “Coop” Cooper is an antihero viewers hate to love.

“I was at the upfronts last week and Denis Leary was there,” Hamm related during an FYC panel for the acclaimed Apple TV+ series at the Hollywood Athletic Club, recalling his very first encounter with the famously abrasive actor-comedian. “He goes, ‘Hey, Hamm! You're a f--king a--hole, and you are on a show with a bunch of f--king a--holes...