Mad man 'hard to love'

Jon Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men.

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His role in Mad Men has won him a Golden Globe and made him a sex symbol, but Jon Hamm maintains he's not a huge fan of the womanising character which has made him famous.

In the hit series, which returns to Prime tonight, the actor plays Don Draper, a suave advertising executive who is incapable of staying faithful to his wife.

"He's probably not the greatest person to live with day in and day out," Hamm said.

"The stress of making 13 episodes of television for me and for my character, because I'm in the majority of the work, is significant."

Set in New York City in the 1960s, Mad Men follows ladies' man Draper and his relationships in and out of the office.

Hamm regularly features in polls of the world's most hottest men – most famously being named one of People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive last year – but the 38-year-old is at a loss as to why women adore Draper.

"He makes it hard to love him because he makes so many curious decisions," he said.

"Our culture has moved away from the sense of masculinity that Don Draper has brought back: this sort of brooding, mysterious intensity.

"I think a lot of people find that mysterious, very masculine, sense of self sexy in a lot of ways."