Secrets... MAD MEN pin-up CHRISTINA HENDRICKS

reckons playing busty bombshell Joan Harris on the hit show actually served to ensure the industry took her seriously.

“I would often get feedback that perhaps they thought I couldn’t play a cop or a doctor or a lawyer or something because they felt that maybe I wasn’t a strong enough woman,” says Christina, 41, who plays a teacher in new comedy movie Fist Fight. But she fears she would never have got to this stage without the acclaimed TV programme about an advertising agency set in 1960s America, which ended in 2015. “I feel Mad Men opened up all these doors and maybe I can play that kind of woman. It’s a gift that all sorts of other wonderful roles are coming my way.” Calm down dear. NOMINATED for the Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars,

Nicole Kidman sounds like she’s more concerned with dressing in accordance with her character for the ceremony than scooping any gongs. “I have a sense of what I want to wear, I want it to have a real flavour of the film but I haven’t found it,” says the 49-year-old who portrays Australian woman

Sue Brierley who adopts a boy from India (played by

Dev Patel) in Lion. Yet while her particular sartorial choices are of such importance ahead of this Sunday’s do, she won’t welcome appearing in any best and worst-dressed lists as a result. “I’m not a fan of ‘worst dressed’ things because I don’t believe in crucifying people for their individual taste. It just seems nasty and misogynistic, so that needs to go away… as my husband (Keith Urban) says, ‘You don’t want to have a thick skin; that’s not a compliment.’” Well, unless you’re a rhino of course. WHICH “happily married” showbiz couple are staying together only for as long as it takes lawyers to sort out their considerable assets?