Jon Hamm pulled 2 groin muscles in Mad Men's iconic yoga shot


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Love it or hate it, the final scene in Mad Men is undeniably serene — at least on screen. But when Jon Hamm sat cross-legged on a yoga mat during our goodbye to Don Draper, it didn't feel so soothing.
"I literally pulled both of my groin muscles," Hamm told USA Today.
A lack of flexibility wasn't the actor's only problem during the shoot in Big Sur, California.
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"It wasn't easy," Hamm said. "My task through all of that was not to fall off the cliff. I was hoping at the time there would not be a stiff breeze, because it would have blown us all off. It was actually very windy that day. You can't tell that because my hair doesn't move. I had about nine pounds of hairspray to make sure."
Perhaps Hamm will finally get an Emmy for his troubles Sunday night.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
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