‘Good Girls’ and 'Toy Story 4' star Christina Hendricks on her first major TV role since ‘Mad Men’ and the show's darker tone
Many know Christina Hendricks from her work on AMC’s hit series ‘Mad Men’, which took its final bow after seven seasons in 2015. After starring in films like ‘The Neon Demon’, ‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’, ‘Bad Santa 2’ and appearing on Amazon’s anthology series ‘The Romanoffs’, Hendricks was ready to take on another series that could potentially last for years to come. MEA Worldwide (MEAWW) had the opportunity to speak with Hendricks, who opened up about her hesitation with signing on to a network show and what it is that really drew her to the series.
“When I read the script, it was just this really different tone than anything I had read and I really loved that it was walking this tight rope of comedy and drama. But I was like, ‘wait a minute, this is on NBC how are they going to do this? Are they going to be true to this script? Are they going try to tone it down?’ Jenna Bans, our creator, and I spent probably a month talking where she was trying to convince me to do it and I was like, ‘I just don’t trust this network thing and the show is so edgy…are you sure they are going to do it like this?’ And she said the network promised they would and that they really wanted to do something cool and different. So after a lot of talks and convincing, I was like ok…let’s do this!”