Most embarrasing scene of Christina Hendricks, from 'Mad Men' to erotic thriller
The one who played the iconic chief secretary Joan Holloway faces the challenge of leaving behind her best-known character.
Meanwhile, she premieres projects like 'The neon demon', along with Keanu Reeves, or 'Hap and Leonard' and gets carried away by her hobbies: "to disconnect I crochet"
Seeing her and feeling like Peggy Olson in her first job interview at the Sterling Cooper agency are all one.
She said goodbye to us Mad Men exactly a year ago and it is impossible not to remember the charismatic chief secretary Joan Holloway when Christina Hendricks (Tennessee, 1975) receives us in a charming room at the Ritz hotel in Madrid
She looks like she's going to ask for my credentials at any moment. It is not that she imposes her presence, it is that Hendricks seems to have emerged from another era. She only breaks her elegant and studied pose when she laughs out loud.
And it is at that moment, in which the character of arms to take gives way to a sweet woman, when she remembers with satisfaction her stage as a model and confesses that she is lucky now that she can alternate drama and comedy, film and television.
From the corseted attitude of Joan, she has gone on to the uninhibited Trudy of the series Hap and Leonard, the unconventional thriller from AMC that brings the promotional actress to Spain. Trudy, an '80s Texan femme fatale, tricks the title characters, played by James Purefoy
She sleeps with both of her ex-husbands [Hap, who is still in love with her, and Howard, a free love hippie] to have power over them, but I think Hap has that influence over her too," she says of a character whose ambition, but not his look: "Cowboys look much better in real life than they do in the movies."
That way of manipulating men, however, does not go with her. "Trudy is very troublesome and I just want things to be okay. We do look alike in how calm we are and how comfortable we are with ourselves."
However, Trudy tells Hap as soon as they meet again that she does jazzercise, as if she had to justify that she takes care of her physique... "It's a joke between them, they've known each other for a long time.
Although my thing was never jazzercise but aerobics," he remembers laughing. And how does she keep fit? "I like to do pilates, it gives me strength," she explains. "I crochet to disconnect. I relax and don't think about anything. And I watch a lot of television, I like good television. It makes me travel to other places, escape."
Christina Rene Hendricks grew up in Idaho and moved to Virginia in the late 1980s. At the age of ten, she decided to stop being blonde "because redheads are beautiful, like Anne of Green Gables or Ginger Grant from Gilligan's Island.
" At 18, before becoming an actress, she was a model for a decade. "I loved that job. I got out of high school and became a business woman, I was able to travel, get to know other cultures. It was a very natural transition: I stopped being a model because I always wanted to be an actress."
From that time, a session for Playboy is surprising in which the actress, very thin, does not show off her famous voluptuousness. "It was so much fun, it was supposed to be. I'm next to a clown who drinks tequila, with a blonde wig and a silver bikini. The Playboy photos were a little creepy, yes, but I like them a lot," ditch laughing.
Despite her withdrawal from the world of fashion, chance has wanted her to return to it in fiction. In Hap and Leonard, Trudy is a savvy village miss. Breaking stereotypes? "I talked about this a lot with the director. She must have achieved many things because she was a cheerleader or a daddy's girl who entered many beauty pageants. But she always wanted to show that she was more than that, less superficial, and that she wanted to do something of profit.
And, since he never got it, that's what he's trying to do." The motivation of her next character in The neon demon, the erotic thriller with which Nicolas Winding Refn set Cannes on fire, is another.
"I only appear in one scene. The director is a friend of mine [Hendricks already collaborated on Drive] and, before I had the script, he asked me to appear. I am a modeling agent, a nasty aunt who judges everyone [laughter ] What if I've met girls like her? Yes!"
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