The series’s fourth season debuted in March. The robbery leads to a spiraling of bad behavior and consequences. We were hard on each other.”Ĭhristina Hendricks can be seen on the NBC comedy-drama series Good Girls, which follows the misadventures of a cadre of normal, everyday women who get “fed up” and decided to rob a local grocery store. Was he a perfectionist, was he tough, did he expect a lot? Yes. “I don’t discount anyone’s experience if I wasn’t there to see it, but that wasn’t my experience. “My relationship with Matt was in no way toxic,” she said. Still, despite accusations that the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner, sexually harassed members of the Mad Men staff, Hendricks told the Guardian that she did not experience any harassment at Weiner’s hands. “I’m sure there’s a casting couch at the bank down the street, I’m sure the same thing happens in management consultancy, but people don’t know who the management consultants are.” “It gets a lot of attention because people know who we are,” she exclaimed. Hendricks said she assumes that the same harassment problems occur in most industries but that Hollywood just has a higher profile over the issue because of the fame many of its stars have achieved. “I have had moments - not on Mad Men on other things - where people have tried to take advantage of me, use my body in a way I wasn’t comfortable with, persuade me or coerce me or professionally shame me: ‘If you took your work seriously, you would do this,'” she said imitating her oppressors. “I don’t know one musician or one model or one actor who has escaped that,” Hendricks told the UK paper. Hendricks also insisted that the entertainment industry still has a huge problem with sexual harassment and inequality, despite its supposed wokeness, (AP Photo/Evan Agostini for Chase Sapphire) “We were like: ‘This is strange – we’ve been doing this for a while.'”įrom left, actress Elisabeth Moss, series creator & executive producer Matthew Weiner and actress Christina Hendricks attend the ‘Mad Men’ Season 4 Finale screening, presented by Chase Sapphire and AMC at the 21 Club on Sunday, Octoin New York. It took three to four seasons, and then all of a sudden, people wanted us on magazines,” the still-stunning redhead added. Suits came back in skinny ties came back in. “Men started dressing like Don Draper and Roger Sterling. The 46-year-old actress went on to note that as Madmen continued to set trends and earn awards and accolades, the women on the show were mostly ignored by popular culture at large, especially early in the series’ run. “There are only two sentences to say about a bra.” “There certainly was a time when we were very critically acclaimed, and getting a lot of attention for our very good work and our very hard work, and everyone just wanted to ask me about my bra again,” Hendricks told the Guardian. But she has suffered sexist treatment at the hands of the entertainment press and agrees that Hollywood is rife with sexual harassment. You can catch Drive in theaters on September 16.Reflecting on her acclaimed role on the hit drama Mad Men, actress Christina Hendricks said she has mostly fond memories of working on the show with series creator & executive producer Matthew Weiner. That concludes our interview but we’d like to thank Christina Hendricks for talking to us. (laughs) I’m ready to give directions at any time. I still think someone’s going to ask us for the bathroom. But it’s still strange, we’re still flabbergasted when someone stops us on the street. So we slowly got used to it, a little bit. I can’t imagine some of thees kids, who overnight have a hit show or a hit movie. So at least we kind of had time to get used to it. So it was this really nice gradual thing, it wasn’t an overnight thing. Then it was an underground, cool thing, and people were talking about it. So in season 2, people were catching on a bit. The critics were so great to us, and wrote such glowing reviews. I thought they were going to ask where the restroom is or something. Every once in a while, we’d be out at a restaurant, and someone would come up and say excuse me. With the slow build of the show, we shot season 1, and not many people had seen it. CH: Yeah, to be honest, it’s been surreal, it really has.
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