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CAA has signed Emmy-nominated Mad Men star Christina Hendricks. Hendricks, who plays Joan Holloway on AMC’s drama series, co-stars with Ryan Gosling in the Nicolas Winding Refn-directed Drive and the Weinstein Company’s I Don’t Know How She Does It. She had been with the Kohner Agency.
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great signing, although I thought she was going to go to UTA or ICM
I love Christina, but have to point out that Kohner is still going to commission her Mad Men deal. Christina is still supporting in a fantastic cast, and needs a team fighting for feature roles during hiatus. Just hope she can break thru the CAA system – competing with the likes of Scarlett, Natalie, Drew, Jessica and Blake who all need jobs (and will come before Christina on most assignments). Don’t know if there was a better place for Christina where she stood a fighting chance. Paradigm did it for Heigl (she ruined her own star) but I digress…
Point is that CAA is bloated with young female talent, and we all know how great the tv dept runs…
I don’t entirely disagree but want to point out two things:
1. If her MM contract is coming up for renewal then CAA will commission any increase over the option price in the current deal.
2. She will be on lists behind those other stars, but there are many roles which they will pass on (or their agents won’t even bother to submit them for) because of the money: Christina is cheaper right now than the others you mentioned.
yeah but she was still the cheaper actor at Kohner…and was already on most avail lists. i see the need to change agencies, but if she was somewhere like UTA, ICM, Gersh, Paradigm- she’d be first priority for the agency, not 10 down the line.
So Kohner puts er on this show – the best role she will ever get and then gets er in the room so she can book what, five or six movies that she fails to distinguish herself in and she needs to go to CAA and leave them? Five years from now she will be the Jenny Craig spokeswoman. Maybe she should have lst her managers?
The Jenny Craig comment is a bit harsh, but you’re right that she hasn’t distinguished herself in anything else. I think that says a lot about how important styling is to Mad Men; she seems ordinary outside of that environment. I hope she does well in Drive.
I take it you work for Kohner and they’re not taking this too well over there?
Not actually true smartman – might be better to do your homework if you want to post with that name. I was at William Morris when we put her on Mad Men. Kohner had nothing to do with it. Not sure about the movies but it was her manager and WMA that put her on that show.
I offered CH a really fantastic leading role a few months back and she turned it down, much to our astonishment, because she seemed to be looking for more supporting roles in features. I don’t know how much of that came from her agents, but it was a terrible decision and I wanted to tell her as much but obviously I can’t. I hope her new digs are more receptive to her getting front and center — but it’s CAA so I’m not holding my breath. They always claim they are going to package other great talent around you and then they never do.
CH is a huge talent and I hope she becomes an ENORMOUS feature star. People in the US never realize what a global presence she is.
This one’s easy for CAA. Hendricks will never be a 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet. But she’s great-looking and reasonably castable. This means she’ll pop up in a couple high-profile Clooney or Fincher movies while she rides Mad Men as long as she can. And that will be that. Everyone wins here.
She’ll be starring in an indie with Josh Hartnett and Chace Crawford next hiatus.
Kohner told her not to do Mad Men.
She’s mentioned it in interviews.
Oops.
Typical Hollywood move and disappointing one by Hendricks who I’ve heard is lovely and normal. What’s wrong with her career? She’s a breakout star, getting endorsement deals, so you leave the people who do this for you? Blah.
She’s great in “Drive”
Great call for CAA. She’s a real talent that’s broken the current mold and is bringing back the star looks of yesteryears. They have the power to package and that’s important to an actor. That being said the Kohner team has always treated her like an A Lister. They treat all of their clients that way. Good news is they must be looking for new talent to bring in.
It’s almost inevitable. Unknown, struggling actor or actress has an agent or manager who really believes in them, takes a chance on them, helps them build a career and break through the clutter of a million other aspirants, and then the newly-minted star leaves (usually lured away) for a bigger, more glamourous agency. They didn’t believe in her when she was some obscure, zoftig, wannabe, but now, after someone else did all the hard work, they suddenly see what a genius she is and all the potential she has.
As a William Morris client for the last eighteen years, I can tell you that you don’t need an agent when things are good, you need one when things are bad. I have been loyal to my agents, and they have been loyal to me, through the booms and the (thankfully rare) busts. Every career has ebbs and flows, and you need someone who will be there for you and keep fighting for you during the ebbs. I assure you that whomever pitched their heart out to get the currently-hot Christina Hendricks to sign at CAA, will be “down the hall,” “behind closed doors,” “in a screening,” “on another call,” or otherwise engaged when the cooled down Christina Hendricks calls in a few years. Poachers don’t build careers, and they don’t rebuild careers when they’ve lost momentum. They seek the heat until the heat is no more, and then simply move on to the next big thing, the new hot commodity, and let the fallen drift back into the wilderness to fend for themselves.
and WMA did? were you there in 98 when they dropped anyone who wasn’t bringing in at least 100k in commission. there are plenty of people they didn’t stick with either. let’s not talk about loyalty and claim it’s a one way street…
I have no dog in this fight, but you missed the point of that post completely.
So here comes lots of best friend to SJP/Drew/Kate/Cameron roles in bad romcoms for her.
I’m pretty sure her agent threatened to dump her if she accepts the role in Mad Men. Was she with Kohner at that time?
Christina Hendricks is not only beautiful but also very talented. I wish her all the best.
Kohner takes themselves to seriously for their own good.
not surprised above nailed it.
A number of agents & managers who are taking credit for the hard work & tenacity of a young starlet on this board is typical.
Of course they busted there bums and got her the auditions for things that were right for her and then it was up to her to get the job. I’m sure there were plenty of jobs she was asking/fighting to be seen for but was not considered because her agents/managers could only take her so far. And if she wants to swing the bat in a different ball park why shouldn’t she be allowed to. If she begins to call and say why aren’t I being packaged in this or seen for that she would be called “difficult.” Instead she is taking a leap of faith and seeing if it works out in an agency that operates different than hers. It’s a business and it is, at the end of the day, her business. She is allowed to take all the risks and movements she deems necessary. Everyone’s hard work should be respected, but when it’s time to move on why that ruffles so many feathers is absurd.
If Warners has any brains they should lock in Refn & Hendricks to reteam for WONDER WOMAN.
Nope don’t work for Kohner. WME told her not to do Mad Men not Kohner. Kohner told her to do it so she fired them and went there. So actually my info is correct- but let’s amend it to WM got the audition for her.
Who is January Jones repped by? …She’s ended up in much more high profile fare post-Mad Men despite critics crowing about her talents. Christina has always been praised from the start, but seems to have really struggled to get noticed in features.
She’s only been in one high profile film post-Mad Men and that’s X Men: First Class. It’s not like she has a huge movie career.
Besides her knockout body, I still do not see the big deal about Christina Hendricks ( even though I am a fan of ” Mad Men ” ) . She has fake boobs ( she was very small chested in Showtime’s ” Beggars and Choosers ” ) and very little acting range. Rosemarie DeWitt is still the best actress that graced ” Mad Men “. Where was her Emmy nomination ? I am sure Christina is a nice girl , but people need to stop the HYPE. Hendricks is just another overrated version of Scarlett Johansson. Don’t get me wrong , I would love for Christina to prove me wrong.
Everyone bashing Christina’s former agents for telling her not to do Mad Men has to at least understand why they would do that. AMC wasn’t the same AMC back then. It was just a random cable channel that reran mostly old movies. There was no Breaking Bad. There was no Walking Dead. Her character was going to be like a 5th stringer in an ensemble cast on a nothing cable channel for crap pay – and she would likely be locked out of getting another potentially more lucrative role.
20/20 hindsight makes it look like, ‘oh, god! what were they thinking??’ but any agent would have given her the same advice.
As for the signing…well, she’s a name. She’ll earn money. But let’s be honest about it for a minute: she’s already 36. By the time Mad Men ends its run she’ll be at least 40. Hard to argue that she’s viewed as a leading lady, so…how big of a career can she have now when she’s already only 10 years away from the Lifetime MOW’s. Seems like more of a signing for a Paradigm or a Gersh. It’s almost not befitting of CAA.
Gross, you’d never say that about a young male tv star on a hit show in his 30′s. Grow up and stop seeing the world & this business with a myopic view. There is such a need for strong, adult females with all shapes, ethnicity and character traits to star in movies and to tell stories. The movie business isn’t made out of Transformers.
My daughter worked with Christina on “I Don’t Know How She Does It” and she’s just lovely. We are from Virginia and so is she. She is very down to earth and also from the same area. My daughter is also an up and coming little actress and I have been told by other A-List actors that eventually you have to move on from a smaller agency because you outgrow them if you become successful. I don’t know why, I am assuming it is because of negotiating skills, connections etc. I would give her the benefit of the doubt…she is a very nice person.