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Esquire – May 2010

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:59:37 +0000

Christina Hendricks is looking better than ever on the May 2010 cover of Esquire.

The 34-year-old Mad Men actress, aka Joan Holloway, reportedly won the mag’s best-looking woman contest. She won 30 percent of the best-looking vote, followed by Victoria’s Secret angel Adriana Lima (17%) and and Megan Fox (14%).

The production of the fourth season of Mad Men already kicked off. Jon Hamm and Anna Camp have already been spotted on set.

New York Magazine – Spring 2010 HQ Scans

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:31:28 +0000

HQ scans from New York Spring Fashion (February 22) are available.

New York Magazine – Spring 2010 Cover

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:45:35 +0000

Christina Hendricks made the cover of New York Magazine‘s Spring Fashion issue this year.

Woman of the Hourglass
Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks finds talk of her body boring. A minority opinion, to be sure. Particularly this season.

Christina Hendricks thinks all the talk about her body is a little embarrassing. It’s not as if she has an extra limb, after all. She just has an especially attractive version of the same thing women have had forever—curves—but she happens to have them in a profession where women haven’t for quite some time.

“It kind of hurt my feelings at first,” she says. “Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous, you get really self-conscious. I was working my butt off on the show, and then all anyone was talking about was my body!”

You can see why all the focus on how big the chest, how narrow the waist, how round the hips could drive an actor—anyone—insane, but people were only noticing Christina Hendricks’s body because they were finally noticing Christina Hendricks. Her portrayal of Joan Holloway, the complicated office queen of Sterling Cooper (Draper Pryce!), on Mad Men is properly captivating for its combination of total competence and heartbreaking vulnerability. And she delivers the spectacular performance while looking extremely different from the other women we’ve grown used to seeing on television, in movies, on the covers of magazines. “It might sound silly,” she says, “but I didn’t realize I was so different. I was just oblivious. Sometimes I would go on an audition and someone would say something like, Girl, you’re refreshing! That was it.”

And it’s not Hendricks’s fault that she’s come to everyone’s attention as an actress at a time when bodies are very much an issue—if not the issue—as far as fashion is concerned. There are the various attempts by fashion cities like São Paulo and Milan to police model weight; there are press conferences, BMI restrictions, mandatory turkey sandwiches backstage at every show. But lately there have also been baby steps taken toward the (unfortunately) radical idea that looking good need not involve so much rejection of the naturally occurring female shape. Glamour has begun to mix models of various sizes into its regular editorial shoots. A recent issue of V concerned itself with shape, pointing out that clothes—even fashion clothes—can look good on differently sized people.

But too often the size discussion becomes almost grotesque, as if the only alternative to being as lean as a skinless Perdue chicken breast is to veer wildly (and unhealthily) in the opposite direction (Gabourey Sidibe, Beth Ditto). One can’t help wonder if the fashion world’s obsession with those two women, both of whom deserve prominent coverage for their talent first and foremost, isn’t in some sense overcompensation, an attempt to atone for the terribly thin models who still hold sway everywhere. Either way, it becomes a game of extremes.

There is a spectacular other path. And Hendricks working the Emmy’s red carpet in formfitting L’Wren Scott is terrific PR for the opinion that Hollywood success should not be determined by one’s ability to Pilates one’s hips up, off, and away. None of this is meant to suggest that Hendricks is big. She is not. (That the New York Times seemed to endorse a stylist’s description of her as “a big girl” in its coverage of the Golden Globes was mystifying and strange.) It is also not to suggest that her figure is attainable to the average duck. She looks the way movie stars used to look. She is, in that sense, proof of how certain bodies go in and out of fashion.

It is perhaps ironic then that Hendricks actually started out as a model—catalogues, mostly, but there was one season on the London runway that ended when her agent said, “Darling, did your boobs grow?” (One imagines that future seasons might see the question posed in the opposite direction.) Now, she is a fully working actor, with three new films in the can and several more under consideration. Curiously, she keeps getting called in to audition for roles as the mothers of people she isn’t nearly old enough, at 34, to have birthed—which has a lot to do with what she wears on TV. “The way we dress on Mad Men is so associated with old photographs, with people’s parents and grandparents,” she says. “In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.”

Work on a new season of Mad Men is about to begin. “We’re really spoiled on Mad Men,” she says. “Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.”

As for the body question, she’ll answer it when asked, but mostly it bores her. “It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth,” she says. “Back when I was modeling, if someone said ‘I’m fasting,’ I would say, ‘Can’t we talk about something else?’”

La Cucina

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:53:13 +0000

La Cucina which stars Christina Hendricks in her first starring role in a film, was recently released on DVD. Following its premiere on Showtime in December 2009, La Cucina was released on January 12, 2010 through Anthem Pictures both in DVD and Blu-ray™ formats and is available at Amazon, Netflix, and AnthemDVD.com.

“Move over Julia Child, Christina Hendricks is in the kitchen!” – Entertainment Weekly

“[An] intriguing introspective look at. . .relationships.” – Movie Room Reviews

**** stars – “Delicious” – About.com

You can check out the trailer on the official site or by clicking the cap below.

The most intimate room in the house is the kitchen,” insists screenwriter A.W. Gryphon. “It’s where we care for people by feeding them, have the best conversations and, of course, where we stage the greatest seductions.” That’s why Gryphon chose it as the setting for the simple and tenderly beautiful exploration of love served up in the multiple award-winning movie La Cucina.

La Cucina features an exceptional cast: Christina Hendricks (Mad Men breakout sensation) makes her film debut opposite international star Joaquim de Almeida (The Burning Plain, 24), while supermodel-turned actress Rachel Hunter (A Walk in the Park) and Showtime’s L Word pin-up girl Leisha Hailey turn their usual roles upside down. The film also features an original guitar score composed and performed on-screen by Ian Ball of the indie-rock band Gomez (now on world tour).

La Cucina is a brief slice of life—a look at four people trying, just like the rest of us, to figure out what makes a relationship work. In neighboring apartments, two conversations go late into the night. Downstairs, Lily (Hendricks), young and sure of herself but barely able to make a salad, squares off in an emotional duel with the dashing Michael (Almeida), who is older and worldlier than she—both in the kitchen and in matters of romance. Can they trust each other? Is their unmistakable attraction the start of a casual adventure or the chance for something deeper? In the kitchen above, the very pregnant Shelly (Hailey) is terrified that becoming a mother will drive away her husband and has stormed out of their place after a culinary disaster. She’s gone to see her lesbian friend Jude (Hunter), sure that this magnificent cook who’s been in a long-term relationship has it all figured out. But as Shelley pours out her fears and Jude prepares a sumptuous feast for a lover whose attentions turn out to be elsewhere, it soon becomes clear that both women have secrets they’d rather not reveal.

Delving into the tangled web of attraction, lust, commitment, marriage, betrayal, insecurity, affection and hope, La Cucina also reminds us, in mouthwatering detail, that food and love go hand in hand.

Directed by Allison Hebble and Zed B. Starkovich, La Cucina is winner of the awards for Best Feature at the Los Angeles Backlot Film Festival and Beloit International Film Festival, and for Best Screenplay at the Bragacine International Film Festival in Portugal. The film was also an official selection of the Hollywood International Film Festival and LA Femme Film Festival.

The Bonnie Hunt Show Alert

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:14:33 +0000

Don’t Miss Tomorrow’s Bonnie Hunt Show!

Christina Hendricks of the Emmy Award-winning Mad Men appears on the Friday, September 25 episode of The Bonnie Hunt Show where she shares stories of her longtime desire to be a redhead, the positive reactionto her fuller figure and the surprising reaction from her agent when she accepted the role in the cable show.

Oprah Goes Mad

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:46:57 +0000

Tune-in Monday, Sept. 21 as Oprah takes a trip back in time to the 1960s! Inspired by the pop culture phenomenon of AMC’s Emmy and Golden Globe winning series Mad Men, this very special episode will feature a blast-from-the-past ’60s themed set, a studio audience decked out in their best ’60s costumes, and appearances by Mad Men‘s Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm and January Jones, a performance by the Jersey Boys and some surprise guests! Even Oprah herself goes Mad Men with a one-of-a- kind dress created by the show’s Emmy winning costume designer, Janie Bryant.

Plus, Oprah unveils what would have been her “Favorite Things” from the 1960s. It’s a retro hour you won’t want to miss! “The Oprah Winfrey Show: Oprah Goes Back in Time – The ’60s” airs Monday, Sept. 21 – check local listings for time and channel.

We will try to bring coverage of this if Christina Hendricks pops by!

InStyle Weddings – Fall 2009

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:22:10 +0000

Christina is on the cover of InStyle Weddings Fall issue.

The 34-year-old redhead, who plays bombshell secretary Joan Holloway, is currently engaged to (500) Days of Summer actor Geoffrey Arend (he’ll next star in TNT’s upcoming drama, Trust Me, which premieres in January).

Christina shares, “Before I met Geoffrey, marriage just wasn’t that important to me. Once I fell in love, it became this very exciting idea to share my life with him and throw a wedding to celebrate. It was worth the wait — I wasn’t ever going to settle.”

As for her Carolina Herrera wedding dress, it was also love at first sight. Christina says, “It was the very first dress I tried on. It’s got a bit of Sophia Loren to it, but really, it’s a Christina Hendricks dress.”

New Scans

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:00:02 +0000

Christina Hendricks is featured in a few publications right now including Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and Cosmopolitan. Now you can view scans of these features in the gallery.

InStyle (UK) – September 2009

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:56:42 +0000

Christina Hendricks is featured in the new issue of British InStyle, looking perhaps more gorgeous than ever! The shot of her is definitely one of my recent favorites, together with the Esquire photoshoot. Thanks to Lorna for this scan!

If anyone of you has any scans of Christina to contribute to the gallery, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Mad Men Season 3 Opens Today!

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:01:42 +0000

The third season of Mad Men kicks off tonight at 10p/9c on AMC. Be sure not to miss it!!