Here are photos from the Paley fest “premiere” of the fifth season of Mad Men – I think the first episode of the season is two hours long, so maybe it really was like a film premiere. Once again, Christina Hendricks and Elisabeth Moss did not make appearances at Paleyfest, but Jon Hamm and January Jones did. You can see the earlier photos from Paleyfest here – I covered them yesterday. The Hamm’s girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt walked the red carpet with him last night. Ugh.

In other Hamm news, he’s the Playboy interview for the April issue. Playboy actually put the whole piece online – you can read it here. I haven’t even gotten a chance to read the whole thing, but I did skim the first two pages. Once again, I just have to emphasize – The Hamm is a smart man. He is a man who became famous when he was in his 30s. He’s not some vapid pretty face. Here are just a few choice highlights:

PLAYBOY: When was the last time you had outdoor sex?
HAMM: It’s been a while. In the era of TMZ, I don’t think outdoor sex is a particularly good idea. It’s one of those things that sound way better than they actually are. There’s something not sexy about all the twigs and bugs and sand. You end up with stuff in places you don’t want it. It always looks better in the well-lit Skinemax version.

PLAYBOY: What about free drinks? Have you paid for a drink since Mad Men became a hit?
HAMM: I am a big tab getter. I’ve been the beneficiary of other people’s good fortune for a long time in my life, so I feel it’s karmic payback. But I’ve definitely had people offer to buy me drinks. It kind of comes with the territory when you play a hard-drinking character on TV. It’s never a bad thing, at least for guys. If you’re a girl, it would probably be a bit creepy and weird if strangers kept trying to buy you drinks. But for guys it’s usually just some bro who wants to say he did it.

PLAYBOY: Don Draper enjoys the brown liquors. Do you indulge?
HAMM: Oh sure. Never at work, but it is a time-honored tradition to celebrate your work upon completion. I live in a neighborhood that has a nice bar with off-the-beaten-track labels, so you can be adventurous and try something new every night. In the past four years or so, due in no small part to the success of our show, I think the world of specialty cocktails has grown up. It’s a lot easier to find a fancy bar where the bartender takes 10 minutes to make one drink. There are a ton of places in L.A. that do that now.

PLAYBOY: Do you have the emotional stoicism of Don Draper, or are you a heart-on-your-sleeve kind of guy? Will you cry at a sad movie?
HAMM: It depends on the movie. This is by turns hilarious and embarrassing, but I’ll tell it anyway. I cried at Marley & Me. Not just teared up a little but full-on cried. That was a f–king nightmare. Dead-dog stories always get me. And dead-mom stories—Terms of Endearment, stuff like that. If a parent dies in a movie, I’m a f–king wreck.

[From Playboy]

After he mentions how “dead mom” stories get him choked up, he talks a lot about the death of his own mother when he was a child. And that got me choked up. The Hamm is an orphan – his father died when Jon was 20. This is a man with some real darkness and tragedy. Gah! I love him so much.

Oh, and I hate January’s dress. Hideous. And Kiernan Shipka is getting so big!

Photos courtesy of WENN.