Jon Hamm on Your Friends & Neighbors and stealing from the ultrarich in Apple TV+ series
Hamm talks about playing an ex-hedge fund manager drowning in debt who breaks into his wealthy neighbours’ homes to steal luxury items
Your Friends & Neighbors begins with a once high-flying hedge fund manager waking up in someone else’s luxurious house, next to a dead body and in a pool of blood.
How he ended up there consumes the first season of this compelling Apple TV+ series, which stars Jon Hamm and takes a peek at the lives of the ultrarich in a leafy New York suburb.
“I was interested in writing about the status symbols, about the way wealth informs community,” says creator, showrunner and producer Jonathan Tropper.
“And then at the same time, what I really wanted to do is subvert it a little bit and talk about how impermanent it all is.”
“Why is more always better?” asks Hamm. “Is the only metric really the accumulation of these larger and larger piles of stuff, whether it’s money or goods or houses or wives or what have you? We’re kind of arrived at this time where this story is particularly resonant.”