Jon Hamm, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is an actor who became a TV legend by bringing to life what the Times of London described as “the most iconic role in the most iconic show in the golden age of TV” — namely, 1960s Madison Avenue ad exec Don Draper on AMC’s Mad Men, which ran for seven seasons spanning 2007 through 2015, becoming the first basic cable program to win the best drama series Emmy and bringing him a best actor in a drama series Emmy.

Now, a decade after Mad Men ended, Hamm, 54, is again anchoring another major drama series for which he could once again contend for that same award: Apple TV+’s Your Friends and Neighbors, which debuted on April 11, and on which he plays a wealthy New York hedge fund manager, husband and father whose life collapses around him,...