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"Christina Hendricks has spoken about her controversial plot line in Mad Men. The fifth season&amp;#039;s 11th episode &amp;#039;The Other Woman&amp;#039; saw Joan prostitute herself to a major client in order to secure his business, in exchange for a partnership stake in Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.  The plot line has been divisive, and Hendricks told The Daily Beast that where viewers previously identified with Joan despite her flaws, they found this transgression harder to swallow. &amp;quot;[Before], she would say things to Peggy, or to Paul, or do things that you wouldn&amp;#039;t necessarily approve of, but I think people could be, like, &amp;#039;Well, sometimes I do bitchy things too&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;They do identify with her, and so this is maybe a step too far for them.&amp;quot; Hendricks went on to explain that in her view, comparing Joan&amp;#039;s decision in the show&amp;#039;s 1960s setting to a comparable decision today is unfair, given how moral standards have changed.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not fair to compare the situation to 2012, but people can&amp;#039;t help it because that&amp;#039;s where we live. And that&amp;#039;s what we do, and that&amp;#039;s who we are,&amp;quot; she added. &amp;quot;We get emotional, thinking, &amp;#039;I would never do that. I can&amp;#039;t believe it&amp;#039;. Well, you would never do it now.&amp;quot; It was recently reported that Hendricks is in negotiations to return for two more seasons of the show, while her co-stars Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser and January Jones have already reached agreements.  Watch Digital Spy&amp;#039;s interview with Mad Men star Jon Hamm below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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