That’s Christina Hendricks’ Hand In The ‘American Beauty’ Poster

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American Beauty is a film that, since its launch in 1999, has misplaced a few of its shine. It gained 5 Oscars, positive, together with finest image. But it starred now-disgraced actor Kevin Spacey in a job the place he pined after a youthful lady (performed by an underage Mena Suvari) and the entire thing, 20 years later, comes off quite a bit creepier than it could have first felt.

One factor that’s nonetheless usually accepted as nice, although, is the film’s iconic poster. You know the one, of the naked abdomen and hand holding a pink rose? It was by no means fairly clear whose physique elements these have been, although based mostly on the film it appears to suggest they’re Suvari’s. But because it seems, one other well-known actress was the hand mannequin for that poster, even when she wasn’t fairly well-known simply but.

Christina Hendricks, of Mad Men and Good Girls fame, revealed the long-kept thriller on Thursday night time. Hendricks is lively on Instagram and posted a picture of the American Beauty poster to the social media platform together with the revelation that it’s her hand holding the rose to another person’s abdomen within the picture.

“Fun fact…. wait for it…I used to be a model and sometimes a hand model…. this is my hand and another model’s stomach,” Hendricks mentioned. “Proud to be a part if this film in ANY WAY!!!”

There are two main factors of debate right here, the primary of which being that plainly Hendricks saved a particularly tight lid on this enjoyable truth. Her Mad Men costar Alison Brie, for instance, is amongst these actresses within the feedback who’re blown away by that truth. So is January Jones, who performed Betty Draper on the present.

“This is important. How come I didn’t know this?” Jones requested within the feedback.

The different necessary truth is that it is a frankenbody on show, and we nonetheless don’t know whose abdomen that’s. Unless additionally they turned extraordinarily well-known the best way Hendricks did taking part in Joan on Mad Men, we could by no means know who the thriller stomach button is. At the very least, we’re midway there.