mad Men Stars Jon Hamm and John Slattery have reprized their classic roles of Don Draper and Roger Sterling for a surprise cameo in without freezing.
Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix movie is set in the 1960s (around when mad Men took place) and focuses on a corporate battle between the cereal companies Kellogg’s and Post.
In one scene, Hamm and Slattery appear as their alter egos from the hit AMC series to present a sexy new Pop-Tarts ad campaign to Bob Cabana (Seinfeld) and his team, which includes Melissa McCarthy’s Donna Stankowski and Edsel by Jim Gaffigan. Kellogg III.
But they were not convinced by the idea, since it seemed too daring for children.
You can watch the fun clip above.
“The choice is yours: Raisin Bran and irrelevant, or provocative and revolutionary,” Draper declares at one point, as Cabana quietly turns to Kellogg and asks, “Why are they so bad? “It’s just advertising.”
Draper then delivers one of his classic lines: “You’ll never swim across the English Channel and then drown in champagne,” before flirting with Stankowski on the way out.
In the credits of the star-studded film, Hamm and Slattery are officially credited as Ad Man #1 and Ad Man #2.
According to the film’s co-writer Spike Feresten, the scene occurred when he and Seinfeld were re-watching the classic AMC series while producing the new film.
“We were taking breaks while writing this movie and watching scenes from ‘Mad Men,'” Feresten said. IndieWire. “Jerry had just seen everything again [series] again and said, ‘You have to see this scene.’ And in our meetings it would be presented as a comedy. We would just laugh at how mean Jon Hamm would be to these clients.”
without freezing It also stars Hugh Grant as Tony the Tiger, as well as Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, James Marsden, Dan Levy, Fred Armisen and Jack McBrayer.
It is currently available to stream on Netflix.
