{"id":656928,"date":"2026-06-25T04:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656928\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T04:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:46:13","slug":"zoey-deutch-dishes-on-which-star-jon-hamm-was-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656928\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoey Deutch dishes on which star Jon Hamm was calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoey Deutch stars in \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d as well as \u201cGail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.\u201d GC Images<\/p>\n<p>Zoey Deutch has six movies coming out in less than a year. In July alone, she\u2019ll star in two very different releases: Illumination\u2019s animated blockbuster \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d and Sony Pictures Classics\u2019 more racy comedy, \u201cGail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film by \u201cWet Hot American Summer\u201d director David Wain follows the story of a woman whose fianc\u00e9 actually exercises their \u201ccelebrity sex pass\u201d agreement. The title was originally \u201cI\u2019ll Take the Hamm,\u201d reflecting the heroine\u2019s mission to then bed her own sex pass, the hunky \u201cMad Men\u201d star, as payback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA girl goes to Hollywood to find Jon Hamm to have sex with him,\u201d Deutch told Jimmy Fallon on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d of the plot. \u201cYou have to watch the movie to see if I do have sex with Jon Hamm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deutch dished on her latest projects to Jimmy Fallon.  Juan Rico \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n<p>Jon Hamm co-stars in the comedy by director David Wain.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The new film is from Sony Pictures Classics.  \u00a9Sony Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>The very first scene she shot with Hamm on the film\u2019s set was in a hot air balloon, and Hamm, in black tie and white dinner jacket, was mysteriously on his phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re like up in the air\u2026 a foot away from each other and he was on the phone,\u201d Deutch recalled, thinking at the time, \u201cWho could he be on the phone with? I don\u2019t want to interrupt, must be important.\u201d A month later she was scrolling on her own phone and noticed, \u201cIt was him on Amy Poehler\u2018s podcast, \u2018Good Hang,\u2019 in the hot air balloon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weirdly, the only times that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ALhDDUZ2Mto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">Deutch<\/a>, 31\u2014 whose mom is \u201cBack to the Future\u201d star Lea Thompson \u2014 has been in a hot air balloon has been with \u201cTop Gun\u201d Maverick\u201d film stars, after her rides with Hamm and, previously, Glen Powell (after they starred together in the 2018 movie \u201cSet It Up\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Hamm called Amy Poehler from the set of his film.  goodhangwithamy\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Deutch is also currently starring in Netflix\u2019s \u201cVoicemails for Isabelle,\u201d which has a 91% approval rating from fans on Rotten Tomatoes. The release has even prompted the Internet to anoint the star as rom-com queen of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoey Deutch stars in \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d as well as \u201cGail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.\u201d GC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[70206,6491,2973,96,2332,123,10202,146501,103012,56,54,55,59409],"class_list":["post-656928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amy-poehler","tag-celebrities","tag-comedy","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-hollywood","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-jon-hamm","tag-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zoey-deutch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}