Christina Hendricks inspired by ginger!

Christina Hendricks bases her red hot look on a TV castaway.

The 35-year-old actress says it was watching a young shipwrecked schoolgirl Ginger on ’60s TV show Gilligan’s Island that inspired her to go from blonde to red.

“As a kid, every day I would come home and watch Gilligan’s Island and Ginger was on there slinking around in her beaded gowns and purring and everyone was scared of her,” explains Christina.

“I thought I like her. She was this representation of femininity I was also really into Anne of Green Gables. She was red-headed and free spirited and I also wanted to be like her. I think I was supposed to be born a redhead.”

Hendricks recently revealed she was a “goth and punk” at school.

“I was a goth and a little punk in high school. I had knee-high Doc Martens, a leather jacket, black, purple and red hair and black lipstick,” she said.

“So no-one was saying, ‘You beauty! Yeah, get her in the magazines.’ ”