Christina: Forget England ...I’m Mad about Scotland
HER role as an advertising agency office manager on American TV hit Mad Men led to her being Emmy-nominated and voted ‘the sexiest woman in the world’.
Now Christina Hendricks has taken on another ‘ad’ role – promoting Scotland ahead of her part in a new adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Buccaneers for streaming giant Apple TV+.
The flame-haired actress, who will star as Mrs St George, mother of two of the main characters in the series, has spent the past two weeks sightseeing before filming begins.
Ms Hendricks, 47, has been making the most of her free time and sharing holiday pictures on social media of her with her pet cockapoo, Triscuit, along the way.
As Joan P Holloway Harris, she starred in the entire run of Mad Men between 2007 and 2015, but has now switched 1960s New York for 2022 Edinburgh – visiting Portobello beach, taking a whisky tour at Johnnie Walker Princes Street, and dropping by Prestonfield House hotel. She also found time to be entertained at the Fringe.
One snap was of a visit to the Marshall Meadows Manor House in Northumberland, near the Border. It was captioned: ‘Path to the left, Scotland. To the right, England. I chose Scotland.’
Made by the British production company behind BBC/PBS political series Roadkill and Starz period drama Becoming Elizabeth, the new series will be shot in Scotland. The Buccaneers follows the lives and loves of a group of young American girls who explode onto the London season of the 1870s, kicking off an AngloAmerican culture clash.