Jon Hamm wasn’t an overnight success.

The Your Friends & Neighbors star, 54, paid his dues with small parts until he got his big break on the hit AMC drama Mad Men . Newly surfaced video from the ’90s shows one of Hamm’s earlier “roles”—this time as a contestant on a USA Network dating game show called The Big Date , hosted by Mark L. Walberg . The resurfaced footage shows a much younger, less-Hollywood-heartthrob Hamm talking about his ideal date. The aspiring actor was rejected twice on the show, but the footage lives on in infamy.

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