"We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'"
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The Jon Hamm comparison is surgical. It reveals how character-attachment works: even a mans hair becomes canon, the slicked Mad Men aesthetic policed by strangers as if continuity errors were personal betrayals. Yet Hendricks is also noting the gendered asymmetry. A mans hair is a quirky detail; a womans body is framed as the main event, with clothing functioning like evidence in a case the public thinks it owns.
Theres quiet fatigue under the humor: "we have defined these characters" implicates the industry as much as the audience. Marketing teams, costume departments, press cycles - everyone collaborates in turning an actor into a repeatable fetish. When she steps out of the pencil skirt, its read as a glitch in the simulation. The real sting is how quickly "iconic" becomes "dated": a compliment that expires on schedule, leaving the actor to renegotiate her own image in public, again and again.
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Hendricks, Christina. (2026, January 17). We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-defined-these-characters-people-always-37978/
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Hendricks, Christina. "We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-defined-these-characters-people-always-37978/.
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"We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-defined-these-characters-people-always-37978/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
