Thursday, September 03, 2015
Emmys 2015: Christina Hendricks on ‘Mad Men’ and Audition Nerves
Backstage: Christina Hendricks knows a thing or two about developing compelling characters. The “Mad Men” star, who has been Emmy-nominated for best supporting actress in a drama a whopping six times, talked about auditioning for what would eventually become one of the show’s most iconic roles. “She was on the page,” Hendricks said of Joan, the queen bee of the office. “I just tried to take all the clues that I saw in the script.
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No show has revolutionized or elevated the expectations of television drama more that "Mad Men," the instant classic on AMC about the glamorous, fast-paced lifestyle of a premier advertising agency in 1960's NYC. What makes the show so poignant and engrossing are the entirely believable characters, including the sharp-tongued Joan Holloway-Harris played by Christina Hendricks. In her interview with the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, it is striking to hear Hendricks' journey to becoming one of the most popular and iconic characters in the series--despite Harris's confident strutting throughout the hallways of the agency, Hendricks was all nerves for her first audition. An interesting discussion brought up in the interview is the intersection between Holloway and Hendricks, how through only two very nondescript scenes in the pilot, Hendricks was able to construct a characters through her own personal intuition and the subtext she perceived through the script. Eight years and eight season later, Hendricks comments on an aspect of the business which is often not touched on--the show's impact on the individual actors. Just as much as Ms. Holloway changed from season to season, Hendricks was right their with her, and her confidence and range of experience has widened so broadly, it is impossible for her to think what her life or career would have been if the role of Joan had passed her by.
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