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I mean, I do like developing a character over a long amount of time. You’ve also got a pilot, Roadies, with Cameron Crowe and J.J Abrams – what do you love about TV? So I’m playing the head of a modeling agency, and I introduced Elle (Fanning)’s character to the world of modeling and fashion. So he asked if I would essentially come in and do a bit of a cameo. I actually just went in and did a little guest part for one day because the director, Nick Winding Refn, is a good friend of mine, and we’d worked together before. Sometimes you just know, and my husband was like, “are you nervous?” I said, “you know what? I’m really not this year.” I guess if you lose that many times in a row, you start to calm down, but I actually really enjoy awards shows. Last year I just knew it was never going to happen, and I was pretty calm. You’re a five-time Emmy nominee – how do you feel going into this awards season? Do you still get nervous? I think he’s a wonderful director and a sensational actor, and it’s been one of my great joys on the show working with him. Oh, gosh, it would just break my heart if I never got to work with John again. Roger and Joan were so great together you were directed by John Slattery in God’s Pocket, do you have any plans to work together again?

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It’s very exciting for me,” says Hendricks of her love for TV “I do like developing a character over a long amount of time. People really loved her confidence and her resilience, and her able-ness. If you think this person really is trying to help, then it will come across. That’s just how she thinks she’s helping.” I think when you play the role with those kind of ideas behind it, something else comes through too. I said, “oh, she’s so mean, she’s so mean,” and he said, “no, she’s not. I talked to Matt (Weiner) about it early on. So you almost couldn’t fault her too much for it. Sometimes you don’t always want to hear the truth, but she oftentimes just said it as it was. I think one of the things is that she always spoke the truth. What did you personally learn from Joan in playing her for so long? I was working consistently on TV shows, and no one was like, “who’s that girl?” No one really gave a s**t before. So all of a sudden it brought attention to me that I’d never gotten before. I think it’s a testament to the look of the show and the hard work of Janie Bryant, and the costumes, and the hair, and all of sudden, I looked different because I was in the 1960s, and it seemed to suit me. Most actresses in Los Angeles are pretty beautiful and I never thought that, or I don’t think anyone else ever really thought that before that show. Your attractive and curvaceous physicality is often mentioned – did you feel that you had to fight harder to be seen as an actress with serious talent, not just a beautiful woman? I just felt like, all of a sudden, I’m in that time and place, and it wasn’t until the middle of those scenes that it just sort of felt right.

It wasn’t until I was on set and in that very extraordinary office that just transforms you immediately. This is your role.” I was just overwhelmed too because it was a two-page monologue. I’m just saying words.” But my girlfriend turned to me, and she said, “no, this is yours.

I thought, “oh, gosh, I’m not doing anything with this role. I was just so exhausted by the whole season – going in, being rejected and then having to pick yourself up and start again. It was pilot season and I’d auditioned for quite a few things, and I was getting ready for that audition, and my best friend was helping me memorize the lines, and I just started crying.

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