Mobil Ini Menarik Perhatian Si Sexy Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks, female star of Mad Men was never interested in cars, until we took her out in the new Ferrari California

Slicing into the traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway in downtown Malibu, California, the classic Azzurro Ferrari California takes a deep breath of sea air then exhales loudly as we accelerate to cruising speed. With the wind streaming into the cabin and the exhaust crackling away behind us, it takes a couple of seconds for me to notice, but the car is not the only one breathing deeply. My passenger, who was chatting quietly moments before, is also exhaling quite loudly, too. ‘Wow!’ says Christina, squeezing the door handle a little more firmly. ‘This is like a fairground ride. I’ve never really been interested in cars, but this… this is amazing.’ Catching her breath, Miss Hendricks, the ravishing female star of Mad Men, AMC’s award-winning TV soap about a ’60s New York ad agency Sterling Cooper, settles into the California’s cream leather seat and regains her composure. She then continues to talk about life as an actress, the subtly powerful character she portrays, and her ability for perfect recollection. Even with my shaky sense of recall, as we drive along the sun-baked coast, it’s hard to ignore the coincidences and sense of occasion crowding around this moment. Here we are, writer and starlet, in a pre-production version of the new Ferrari California driving up PCH for the first time, almost 46 years to the day after the first Ferrari California arrived in Los Angeles and probably did exactly the same thing.

The names of the passengers might be different, but the significance is still there. As is the fact that the TV show Hendricks stars in is based in New York in the early ’60s and the original Ferrari California Spider made its debut at the New York Auto Show in 1962. All that’s needed is for the actress to show up on screen in a Ferrari and the circle would be complete.

But that’s not going to happen. Mad Men is a heavily applauded and decorated drama – to date, its impressive awards haul includes two Golden Globes, six Emmys, as well as a clutch of other illustrious gongs – precisely because of its faithful depiction of the sexist ’60s, an era when women rarely drove anything other than a pram. The idea of Hendricks’s alter ego Joan Holloway zipping around the streets of New York behind the wheel of a Ferrari is pushing even fantasy to the limits. Particularly as Hendricks’s character is a relatively lowly employee at the imaginary agency. ‘Joan Holloway is the head secretary/office manager at Sterling Cooper,’ the actress explains. ‘She’s this real confident, brassy queen bee who just has a line on everything that happens in the office. She knows all the gossip, she knows where everyone is at what time and she knows everything that’s going on. So she really runs the place on a couple of different levels.’ And then, presumably, catches the bus home.

Sumber: magazine.ferrari.com