The 2011 detective game LA Noire, which was published by GTA company Rockstar Games, starred Mad Men actor Aaron Staton as the lead character, Cole Phelps. A writer on the game has now revealed that a different Mad Men actor, Jon Hamm, was considered for the role as well. Staton portrayed Ken Cosgrove on Mad Men, with Hamm playing the show’s leading role, Don Draper.
Daniel McMahon told IGN that Mad Men and LA Noire had the same casting director, and that Hamm was “discussed as a possibility for the role of Cole Phelps.”
“It was never said at the time, but now, I understand the vision which was Jon Hamm is a wonderful actor, but he’s not Cole Phelps,” McMahon said.
McMahon went on to say that Staton was “much better at portraying Cole’s fragility.”
