Christina Hendricks Eyes Directing Move After Success Of Edgy Crime Drama ‘Good Girls’

Christina Hendricks is best known for playing Joan Holloway in AMC’s Mad Men, a role that earned her six Emmy Award nominations.

However, since the end of the period drama in 2015, the Knoxville, Tennessee-born actor has been keen to spread her wings, and her latest role is as one of the leads in female-driven heist comedy Good Girls.

In the NBC show, which was created by The Family’s Jenna Bans, she plays Beth Boland, a suburban housewife, who, along with her sister and best friend, played by Mae Whitman and Retta respectively, finds herself mixed up with gangsters after a raid on a local supermarket.What attracted you to the role of Beth Boland?I was originally attracted to the idea of comedy and drama genres bleeding together, and getting to expand what I get to do.

I generally work in drama, and I liked the idea that this was an edgy,

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