In the upcoming drama Tin Star, Christina Hendricks stars alongside Tim Roth in a story of migrant workers with a big oil company causing deadly trouble in a small US town.
The Screen Actors Guild winner and Emmy nominee, perhaps most famous for her role in Mad Men, plays the mysterious Mrs Bradshaw - the head of a big oil company.
She's a morally grey character, caught in between the townsfolk, the police officer trying to protect them and the vicious criminals attacking him and his family.
"Mrs Bradshaw is involved and trying to justify her business with it and trying to see it in a positive light, or as something she can change," says Hendricks .
"And yet as it comes in, and it starts to change the town, it's clearly doing no good. So she continues to have to justify, justify, justify and that changes who she is as a woman."
The character is an ex-journalist who has been critical of the oil industry for years, but joins it in a PR role as an opportunity to better it from the inside.
"It's everything that she's been against her entire career, but she really does go in there thinking that she's smart enough to make some changes. Being the voice against it hasn't really done anything so she's taking it in a different route."
Tin Star has already been renewed for a second season ahead of its launch in New Zealand on Three on Monday, 11 September
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