Wonder Woman Christina Hendricks Talks Firefly, Drive, and Whedon

Christina Hendricks is becoming known for more than just AMC’s Mad Men these days, and she found a little time in her busy schedule to talk about her new movie, Drive, what it was like to work with Joss Whedon, and her interest in suiting up in a skimpy outfit to play Wonder Woman.

During the premiere of I Don’t Know How She Does It, Vulture was able to talk to Hendricks about her latest movie roles, and it would have been impossible to let that opportunity slide without bringing up Nicolas Winding Refn’s repeated desires to have Hendricks don the familiar red and blue tights of DC Comics’ popular super-heroine. Refn might be all for it, but would Hendricks be willing to wield the golden lasso?

“Sure,” Hendricks exclaims. “I grew up on the TV show, and I had Wonder Woman Underoos, and my brother had a Wonder Woman doll — sorry, Aaron, you’re exposed. [Giggles.] And Nicolas said, when we were on set, “I want you to be Wonder Woman.” And I think he is such an extraordinary and exceptional director, that if he asked me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.”

It turns out that the Drive director isn’t the only one who’s had fantasies of Hendricks wearing the Wonder Woman outfit, either, because Joss Whedon had also considered the buxom star for the role, and Hendricks was excited even back then about the possibilities. “I’d like to think that Joss would have cast me,” she says. “I also loved working with Joss [on Firefly]. I’m excited to see what he does with The Avengers. Hopefully the stars would align [for Wonder Woman]. It would be really fun. It would be cool, wouldn’t it? I’d get to kick ass.”

Of course, as enjoyable as it is to look into the future and see Hendricks as the Amazonian princess, we can’t completely lose focus on the here and now, which gives movie-goers a double-shot of the sexy redhead as Drive and I Don’t Know How She Does It both arrive in theaters on the same day. While some actors might not be thrilled with competing with themselves, Hendricks believes the two films are so different that audiences will enjoy them both in their own ways. “And I love that I actually have these coming out on the same night,” Hendricks says, “on the opposite end of the spectrum of movies, both enjoyable in completely different ways.”

Are you still trying to picture Hendricks in Wonder Woman Underoos?