In the April issue of V Magazine (the one with J. Lo’s CUP), Christina Hendricks has this pictorial and interview, likely to promote the upcoming season of Mad Men. MARCH 25!!!!! OMG. Less than a month away!!! I might need to re-watch Season 4 just because I think I’ve forgotten some stuff. Anyway, Christina, leather, bad styling. Damn, I really hate this photo shoot. What can I even say about Christina at this point – I really like her on Mad Men, and I think she’s an underrated actress. But she’s not stylish. And she often looks like hell on the red carpet and in magazines. I just don’t know anymore. Christina’s full V Mag piece is here, and here are some highlights:

Christina on going unnoticed: “Oh, I can totally go unnoticed. I ran around all day today. Not a mention. In Los Angeles you know the neighborhoods where you’re more likely to get noticed. And then you probably put on lipstick.”

Joan’s pregnancy: “It probably surprised a lot of people. It certainly surprised me,” she says. “Joan certainly has motherly instincts—at least in a bossy way.”

Learning how to wear a girdle: “Now I put moleskin underneath the rubber so it doesn’t rub against my skin,” she says. “I still get a little bruised up, but I’m learning the tricks of the trade.”

Life before Mad Men: “I used to play characters more naïve than Joan, who is so sophisticated and…not jaded, but worldlier,” she says. “I’ve definitely learned from playing a character that is so confident and resilient.”

She’s playful: In the past several years, she has donned a motion-capture suit to star in Need For Speed: The Run, an installment in a massive racing-simulator-video-game franchise; judged an episode of Top Chef Masters (with her husband, actor Geoffrey Arend); appeared as a Latisse spokeswoman for a special project to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation (“I have long, beautiful lashes right now,” she says); and is currently the voice of the Baskin-Robbins “Flavortising” campaign (“I’ve always been a butter-pecan girl”). She has also admitted to enjoying a drive in her PT Cruiser and, it should be noted, appeared twice as Saffron, a seductive outer-space con artist, on Joss Whedon’s 2002 short-lived but slavishly followed Firefly (fanboys never forget).

Getting more parts because of Mad Men: “It’s amazing to even get these opportunities,” she continues. “I didn’t have them before Mad Men—it opened up so many doors. I feel like a kid in a candy store and I want to try everything.”

[From V Magazine]

Wow, an interview where she doesn’t discuss her boobs! Shocking. But now my Mad Men interest is starting to build… I’ve been keeping it tamped down for so long… it’s coming in waves now. Draper! Sterling! Joanie! Peggy! OH GOD. How am I going to manage these next four weeks?

Photos courtesy of V Magazine via The Mail.