Christina Hendricks

Fun, drama and female friendship are at the heart of the new show The Buccaneers on Apple TV+, starring Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag, Imogen Waterhouse and Christina Hendricks, an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s final novel. For creator Katherine Jakeways, what made Wharton’s story a worthy starting point for her next project was very much connected to her interest in the characters. “Edith Wharton has done such a phenomenal job of making these girls come to life on the page and already feeling like they could be girls who existed at any point in history. They’re just women, they’re just friends,” says Jakeways. “It’s not just about the girls, the older female characters, particularly Mrs. St. George in the book, I just love, and Christina Hendricks has done such a great job of bringing her to life. … We’ve sort of tried to keep the older characters just as interesting and as complicated, and surprising, as the younger characters.”