Jon Hamm's love for teaching

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Jun 11 2017 | 9:22 AM IST
Jon Hamm would have been a teacher if not an actor.
The "Mad Men" actor, who ran a drama class at the Edward R Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New York, before finding fame in Hollywood says after the death of his parents he realised the importance of "alternative parents" such as teachers, reported Femalefirst.
"(Teaching) was always my fallback position if it all went sideways. Being a parent and being a teacher are parallel lines. Growing up without parents for a certain portion of my life and having certain 'alternative parents' for a larger portion of my life, I see that that's an important thing to provide for a kid.
"It can be the different between, literally, life and death -- like a kid who lives a successful life and a kid who punks out in the gutter," Hamm says.
The 46-year-old actor lost his mother to colon cancer when he was 10 and his father died just a few months before the star's 21st birthday.

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First Published: Jun 11 2017 | 9:22 AM IST

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