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How ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Star Jon Hamm Made a Broke Millionaire-Turned-Robber Relatable: ‘It’s Like Robin Hood — Almost’
'Your Friends & Neighbors' star Jon Hamm: 'It's like Robin Hood - almost. Except for one pretty glaring part... he doesn't really give to the poor'
And therein lies the life lesson of Coop, the uber-wealthy New York hedge fund manager played by Jon Hamm in Apple TV+’s “Your Friends & Neighbors,” which premiered on April 11. Except for one pretty glaring part of it: He doesn’t really give to the poor,” Hamm says of Coop, who finds a hefty profit by stealing high-price items from his super-rich friends and neighbors (thus the show title). Tropper adds that using the voiceovers as a device allowed him to “lock in the tone of the show to an extent.” They illustrate the contrast between the self-destructive, risky things we see the character doing on screen, and when he’s reflecting on them later: “Coop is in your ear making a kind of ironic observation about life.”
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