Jon Hamm said Neil Gaiman pitched him on 'Good Omens' season 2 by saying his character Gabriel would walk around 'completely nude'
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- Jon Hamm said Neil Gaiman told him he'd be "completely nude" in a scene of "Good Omens."
- The actor said Gaiman told him in the show's second season he'd walk naked in the streets of Soho.
- Amazon Prime Video announced Friday the show's second season would premiere in the summer of 2023.
Jon Hamm said that Neil Gaiman originally pitched him on the second season of "Good Omens" by saying that his character Gabriel would walk the streets of Soho "completely nude."
At the "Good Omens" panel at New York Comic Con on Friday, Hamm, along with series leads Michael Sheen and David Tennant, appeared via video conference to join Gaiman and other members of the production team and cast. The trio answered a question about when they learned that there would be a second season of the series, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2019.
"I remember talking to Neil about it while we were doing press for the first season, and it sounded very exciting and very interesting potentiality," Hamm said. "But I didn't realize there would be one, and then Covid happened."
Hamm said that Gaiman "told me he had this wonderful idea that I would start by walking down the street in Soho completely nude." In turn, he thought, "Well, that's a great way to start things."
Hamm plays the Archangel Gabriel in "Good Omens," which is adapted from Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett's 1990 novel of the same name. Soho, in London, is one of the show's key locations and is where the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) owns a bookshop.
While the first season of the show adapts the story of the novel itself, season two charts new territory, with Gaiman himself setting the course. The new season, as announced at the panel, is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in the summer of 2023.
When Hamm joined the panel remotely with Tennant and Sheen, he joked that while he may not have been the "star" of the series, he had one leg up on his British co-stars.
"They did just point out to me, however, that I had the most brand recognition in America," Hamm said.