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No one tells you how to not fall on your face’: Christina Hendricks on Mad Men, stardom and her ‘spidey sense

She went stratospheric in the hit ad agency show, but wishes it had happened 10 years earlier. As Christina Hendricks plays a Hollywood mogul, she talks about the whirlwind of fame – and what happens when it stops

In the six-part show, Christina Hendricks plays Wendy Patterson, a Los Angeles TV producer who is back in her small home town in Ireland to shoot a big Hollywood production. We’re talking over Zoom, Hendricks at her upstate New York home by the woods (you can follow its renovation on Instagram – all whimsical wallpaper, quirky antiques and heritage paint). After living in London for a while, she spent her 20s building up her acting work, before getting her big break in 2007 as confident, smart office manager Joan in Mad Men, the hit period drama about advertising agencies.

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