Jon Hamm on How Audible’s ‘The Big Fix’ Spotlights ‘Inconvenient Truths’ About Underrepresented Communities

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Angelique Jackson Jon Hamm has done plenty of voice acting over his career, but voicing 1950s FBI agent-turned-private investigator Jack Bergin has proven unique.

Instead of recording his lines in a silo, Hamm was joined in the recording studio by a murderer’s row of performers — including Alia Shawkat, Ana de la Reguera, Bradley Whitford, Giancarlo Esposito, Omar Epps, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Hamm’s “Mad Men” co-star John Slattery — for the Audible Original series 2022’s “The Big Lie” and the upcoming new installment “The Big Fix.” “This is better in every way, but mostly because the story is so intimate that it’s super helpful to have the personal connection with the person that you’re acting opposite,” Hamm said, discussing the series, created by John Mankiewicz and directed by Aaron Lipstadt, during Variety & Audible’s Cocktails and Conversations at Sundance. (Watch the full conversation in the video above.) “It’s like being on camera even though it’s not on camera.” Granted, “The Big Lie” was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, so getting two actors together proved “weirdly easier and harder,” Hamm said with a laugh. “Because everybody was available.

Wildly, deeply available.” Count de la Reguera, who plays Lala, an old flame of Jack Bergin’s, among them. “It was the biggest gift ever.

My agents called me like, ‘They’re offering you this [role].’ I’m like, ‘Whatever, please, I need to get outta here!’” she said with a laugh.