How's Ben Affleck as a Director? Jon Hamm Jokes: 'Pure Misery'

By Christine Fenno Posted Sep 11th 2010 01:22PM

Cracking wise at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday while discussing what it was like to film the new bank-heist thriller 'The Town' (in theaters next weekend), 'Mad Men' star Jon Hamm opened up during a press conference about taking direction from Ben Affleck.

"It was an awful experience," Hamm insisted, according to PEOPLE. "[Ben's] a horrible human being. Talent-free, I guess we could probably say. It was pure misery...two-and-half months of absolute, abject terror."

Seriously? "No, it was truly a wonderful experience," he said.

But Hamm also claimed that some very sexy scenes helped make the shoot so memorable.

"My sex scenes with Ben -- which were cut, I think, wisely -- were raunchy," he noted, cracking up the crowd.

Affleck, one of the film's stars as well as its director and co-writer, reportedly gets busy on screen with both 'Gossip Girl' vixen Blake Lively, and British actress Rebecca Hall ('Vicky Cristina Barcelona'), in his role as a Boston-based bank robber with a conscience. Hamm plays an FBI special agent determined to catch him.

Joking aside, Affleck told reporters in the press conference, "If casting is directing, then today I can feel proud of my directing." 'The Town' (Affleck's second feature at the helm; his directorial debut was 2007's 'Gone Baby Gone') also costars Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner and Oscar winner Chris Cooper. Early buzz has been positive.

Tags: ben affleck, jon hamm, mad men, Toronto International Film Festival

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Saturday 11 September

By Lydia

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LMAOB I FRIGGEN LOVE THEM!!! i wonder if theres any beef around here that i can get my greecy hands on and sniff until daylight of Leif Erikson Day!!!!

By Apostate

Affleck's a far better director than actor,as the stellar "Gone Baby Gone" proved. I expect "The Town" to be just as,if not more,riveting,and I'll be third in line at the multiplex next Friday.

By merry

I think Jon Hamm is terrific on "Mad Men" and am anxious to see him in this film. Maybe the beginning of a stellar movie career? We'll see.

By lisa

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all over nyc are these disgusting vile grotesque ads for his movie "town" we see a a grotesque old man in a nuns habit..affleck has sunk really low to present such atrocities..he will never amount to anything after this and wasnt much before except handsome thats al hes got

Sunday 12 September

By lesann

You are aware that those were masks used to rob a bank. They were not "old men in habits". I would say that bank robbers are atrocious. What are you - 10?

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