Before she was the voluptuous and sultry Joan Holloway on AMC’s “Mad Men,” actress Christina Hendricks was a high school student in the early 1990s at Fairfax High School.
And she despised it.
Hendricks appears on the cover of the fall Capitol File and talks about her experience living in the Washington area.
“The way I looked and the fact that I was in drama class was not working for me,” said Hendricks, who is now known as Esquire’s “Sexiest Woman in the World.”
Hendricks, not surprisingly, acted in school plays and performed in community theater productions, which made her not so cool. (Think “Glee.”)
“When I was an artist there, we were, like, shunned and made fun of,” she told Capitol File. “But I’m glad it’s changed for the kids there now.”
The glossy makes note that today, Hendricks’ high school has an academy partially dedicated to the arts.
And Hendricks admits that her memories of the Washington area aren’t all bad.
“One of my favorite things is to drive out to Frederick and go down towards Middleburg, which I think is some of the most beautiful country in the world,” she said. “I still miss those drives — getting a tuna sandwich and pickled egg and shopping at little stores.”
