Jon Hamm Plays Emotionally Unavailable Boyfriend in Singer Leslie Stevens’ New Music Video (Exclusive)

Jon Hamm has a new duty: He plays an emotionally unavailable boyfriend in singer Leslie Stevens’ new video for“Blue Roses.”

The clip, launched Friday, functions Hamm in a stetson and jeans t-shirt, as he hands Stevens blue roses and she sings the verses, “Go ahead and take another little piece of my heart/I’ll give it to you as a fall apart.” The bluesy rock-pop track includes the hook,“All I get from you are blue roses.”

The Emmy-winning star also pirates Stevens’ microphone throughout her real-time efficiency and changes it with blue roses in the video, guided by Paige Stark of the rock band Tashaki Miyaki.

“I love a music video, and when it’s for a good song it’s even better” states Hamm, whose various other video credit reports consist of Eeels’ “Are We Alright Again,” Aimee Mann’s “Labrador,” The Lonely Island and Rihanna’s “Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde” and George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord,” the latter of which launched in 2021, 51 years after the tune appeared.

“I’ve been a fan of her music for a long time,” Hamm states of Stevens, whose noise is a mix of Americana, individual, nation, rock and singer-songwriter designs.“I’ve followed along with her incredible career so far. She’s a very talented person and always has been.”

Stevens states Hamm– that educated acting at her secondary school in St. Louis– showed up when she started thinking about the “dream actor to play this toxic cowboy” in her video.

“Working with Jon was an honor. He’s as charismatic as he is kind, and he just seems to be able to create and add so much dimension to his character on the spot. So that on-set magic was really present and by the end of the day I could feel that I had just been smiling all day long,” Stevens states.“He’s so talented and we were so lucky to have him be a part of it.”

Together with Friday’s news of the new video, Stevens additionally went down the launch day– Feb. 23– for her new self-titled cd, which includes “Blue Roses.” She additionally launched a new tune from the cd called “Big Time Sucka.” Leslie Stevens is the singer’s 3rd solo cd after launching jobs with the set Leslie and the Badgers.

“I think the meaning behind the new album is that there is so much good that one can make out of the bad. It’s like the metaphorical flowers that grow out of the fertilizer. Bad things happen, it’s not optional, but there can be a dignity to it even if it’s just that it leads one to appreciate the good,” Stevens states.“I wanted to have as much fun as I possibly could recording the songs and have lots of gorgeous pieces and parts and express myself.”

Stevens created the cd with Kevin Ratterman, that has actually dealt with My Early morning Coat and Ray LaMontagne. My Early morning Coat’s Bo Koster and Nightmare’ Nicole Row show up on the cd, and Stevens states the task is self-titled since it “felt so much like me.”

“I like to say my mom named the record. I had been inside alone with a small child during the 2020 lockdown, followed by an entire year of homeschool and isolation, so when I went to make this recording I wanted to make something that really expressed something giant and fun, not only in spite of, but because of the rough times,” she states. “Writing music helps me process the challenges and turn them into something more.”