LAST� DANCE As “” enters its f inal season—and hurtles toward the disco era—star muses on her character’s fate and her own busy future

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RHAP0414_062_FT_ChristinaHendricks.indd 65 10/03/2014 15:31 RHAP0414_062_FT_ChristinaHendricks.indd 64 10/03/2014 14:52 HRISTINA HENDRICKS wanted to less kept and romantic and obviously fair,” says meet for “dunch”—what she the porcelain-skinned actress. Her idea of a calls the meal nestled between big night out? Dinner at a new restaurant and lunch and dinner—at an empty catching a play downtown with her husband, Italian restaurant near her Body of Proof actor Geoffrey Arend. home on the east side of Los She also likes cooking elaborate meals in her Angeles. She downed two spare time, though that’s far more spare these glasses of Chianti with her days given the hectic filming schedule of the eggplant Parmesan. So yes, seventh and final season of “Mad Men.” The unlike most of the waifs who show’s swan song will be divided into two seem to populate Hollywood, parts—the first half kicking off this month she eats. Her much-discussed with a seven-episode run before returning for hourglass figure, however, is something she’s the final seven episodes in the spring of 2015. Ctired of addressing. “My mom is beautiful and “We’re really savoring it,” says Hendricks I definitely get my curves from her,” she says, about the end of her sojourn in the 1960s adver- leaving it at that. tising world of . “There’s a kind There are plenty of other ways in which of joke, that everything is the last something. Hendricks—who plays , the Like, ‘This is the last time we’ll have a table bombshell office-manager-turned-partner read on the last day of the year.’” on the now-legendary television show “Mad There’s some anxiety tied in with the nos- Men”—refreshingly differs from the majority of talgia, because the end of “Mad Men” means, today’s stars. She hates the gym and has a low- for Hendricks, finding a new job. maintenance beauty regimen. In a pinch, she’ll “I’m scared of going back to hustling to try buy hair dye at the pharmacy to refresh her to find something else, and I’m scared that if signature red color when it starts fading to her I do find something else, I’m never going to natural dark blond. (She started dying it at age be as in love with it,” says the actress, who is 10 after reading Anne of Green Gables.) While much softer and sweeter than her “Mad Men” she typically walks award-show red carpets in character but has the same girly laugh and Zac Posen, L’Wren Scott, Christian Siriano or conspiratorial tone. “I have so many friends Vivienne Westwood—all of whom she consid- in this business. I know how cyclical all this ers friends—she’s dressed casually for dunch stuff is. We’ve all watched our favorite actors in a J.Crew pajama-style white top printed work and not work and come back and been with tiny horses and black pants from Zara. like, ‘Oh my gosh, where’s that person been?’” She loves gardening; she thinks if Joan were a Hendricks needn’t worry quite yet. In the flower, she’d be a pruned rose, while Hendricks last five months she has put off decorating her considers herself more of a peony. “Something Los Angeles home to film roles in movies

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directed by Ryan Gosling (with whom she ranked it the ninth- starred in the 2011 film Drive) and her “Mad greatest TV show of all time, ahead of “I Men” co-star . She also shot an Love Lucy,” “The Cosby Show” and “Breaking adaptation of the psychological thriller Dark Bad”—the entire cast has been similarly shut Places—by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn— out. While the show has taken home more with Charlize Theron and Chloë Grace Moretz. than a half-dozen winged-woman statuettes “All I did was cry all summer,” she said about in the categories of Outstanding Drama Series the big-screen dramas. “There are no tears left. and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, ‘Mad Men’ seemed very light when I got home. not a single one of its actors or actresses has I need to do a rom-com.” been so honored. “When we first started going When the show ends, Hendricks thinks she’ll to these award shows, before they would get keep in closest contact with to our category, all of us girls would look at Janie Bryant and actress Jessica Paré, who plays each other and freshen up our lipstick just in ’s wife, Megan. “This has changed case we won,” recalls Hendricks, adding that all of our lives and we’re all in it together,” she the primping significantly slowed down in says of the cast, most of whom were largely subsequent years. unknown before the show aired in 2007. She has one more shot at winning—and it’s Hendricks might still be largely unknown a pretty good one. The show’s storylines are had she not trusted her instincts about “Mad closely guarded secrets, but Joan is likely to be Men.” After nearly a decade modeling for a big part of the last season. catalogs and fashion magazines, she began “If I were a friend of Joan’s, I’d want her landing a few small roles in television shows to run the company, fall in love, win the like “ER.” However, her agents at William lottery and all of those things,” says Hendricks, Morris advised her against signing on for “Mad relishing the last sip of her wine. “But as a fan Men”—on then-fledgling AMC network—after of the show, I want something horribly tragic established channels like HBO had passed on to happen to her.” She laughs. “A terrible ac- the show. “They dropped me,” Hendricks says cident or something, because I think that would about what happened after she decided to do be interesting.” the show anyway. “But I don’t have any bitter- Day was darkening to night and the waiters ness.” (She’s now represented by ICM.) were moving furniture around to prepare for Neither does she express any bitterness dinner service. Hendricks put on glasses for over never having won an Emmy, despite four her short drive home and looked around the nominations for Outstanding Supporting deserted restaurant. Actress in a Drama Series. Astonishingly, “At the end of the day,” she says, “you’ll prob- given the secure place “Mad Men” holds ably see Joan just turn a key and turn out the in the cultural firmament—just last year lights and that will be the end of it.”

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