Jon Hamm was “pleased to be asked” to contribute alongside Tina Fey in the “actually funny” Mean Ladies: The Musical motion picture.

The Mad Men star, 52, plays Coach Carr in the upcoming film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical– which itself is a take on the 2004 comedy. And while at the Tribeca Film Festival best for his new movie Maggie Moore( s) on Monday, he opened about entering the function came from on screen by Dwayne Hill.

Asked if he was going to sing in the motion picture, Hamm played coy but assured fans the film was “uproarious.”

” Maybe a little bit, but I won’t tease much of it,” Hamm told Entertainment Tonight. “Tina will come off the leading rope and drop an elbow on my head, however it’s very good. The script’s truly amusing. For those individuals that actually took pleasure in the musical, certainly, it’s giving them exactly what they desire, so I enjoyed to be asked.”

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Mean Girls: The Musical is also written by Fey, 53, like the 2004 motion picture. She will reprise her film function as teacher Ms. Norbury. Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’i Cravhalo, Bebe Wood, Jaquel Spivey, and Avantika Vandanapu lead the primary cast..

Fey and directors Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne also cast Jenna Fisher as Cady’s mother and Busy Philipps as Regina’s mother. Tim Meadows returned as Principal Duvall. Hamm, who previously worked with Fey on 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, was cast in March.

The brand-new motion picture is a “cool and very unique version” of the Mean Girls story, Rapp told PEOPLE at Cap’n Crunch’s 60th Birthday Bash in April. “This is a really particular variation of the musical that has a truly specific location in a specific niche, culty theater way, that I believe expands it to perhaps individuals who aren’t incredibly into theater,” the 23-year-old actress discussed.

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Hamm and Fey will next be seen in Maggie Moore( s), which opens on June 16. The small-town murder mystery likewise stars Hamm’s Mad Men costar John Slattery, who spoke with PEOPLE on Monday about Hamm’s strength as a star.

” He’s an excellent comedian,” Slattery informed PEOPLE. “Obviously, we’ve watched him in Mad Men. We all viewed him fully inhabit this incredibly complex character, extremely smart. He’s lovely and funny.”.

The buddies likewise interacted in 2022’s Confess, Fletch– together with Hamm’s fiancée Anna Osceola!– where Hamm significantly gave back 60 percent of his income so that the film might be finished after the group majorly went beyond budget.

Slattery told PEOPLE on Monday he “struck it off early” with Hamm on “day one” of Mad Men. “We worked well together and we ended up being buddies, which relationship grew and now it’s, what 15 years later on or something, 10 years later on– our partners are friends … he knows my kids and we hang around together in different locations.”.

Mean Girls: The Musical will be released on Paramount+.