Can you rule the workplace with sharp zingers and a sharper figure? Playing Joan Holloway — the voluptuous, sometimes-vengeful office manager on AMC’s Mad Men — Christina Hendricks suggests you can. She’ll be back as the pre-women’s lib power broker Aug. 16 at 10 p.m. as the drama about martini-downing, secretary-bedding 1960s ad execs begins [...]
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We here at IGN TV fell on good fortune as we had a chance to chat with some of the stars of one of our absolute favorite series Mad Men. At the TCA Summer Press Tour, the stars of the Emmy-nominated AMC series, which returns for its third season on Sunday August 16th, mingled with [...]
Christina Hendricks, TV’s retro-sexy secretary, on living in a Mad Men’s world.
“Go home. Take a paper bag and cut some eyeholes out of it,” the bombshell supervisor says to the dowdy new girl. “Put it over your head, get undressed, and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses [...]
Christina Hendricks Isn’t All That Fussy
Christina graces the pages of the September issue of Esquire magazine. The photoshoot is one of my favorites, if not my new ultimate fave!
The woman who plays the fastidious Miss Holloway on Mad Men discusses (pleasantly, more or less) her character, her character’s undergarments, and the considerable [...]
“Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss and January Jones were all given substantial work and they were flawless,” says Ryan. “The title may be Mad Men, but the show has given us some of the most complex and compelling female characters on television.”
Judging by the critical acclaim it received, there was no sophomore slump with AMC’s 2008 [...]

