Christina Hendricks Reveals How She Ended Up on 'American Beauty' Poster | THR News - video Dailymotion

The actress stopped by 'The Rich Eisen Show' to talk about her celebrated career.

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00:00Your hand appears in the movie poster holding the rose. Is that true or false?

00:04True.

00:05What's the deal behind that then?

00:08Christina Hendricks is opening up about her surprising connection to the 1999 film American Beauty.

00:14The actress dropped by The Rich Eisen Show on Friday to talk about her celebrated career and dropped a little fun fact.

00:20Before she became best known for her role on the iconic AMC series Mad Men, Hendricks was actually featured on the American Beauty movie poster.

00:28I used to be a model and one of the gigs I got was to go and shoot a movie poster. I had no idea what the film was.

00:36The movie turned out to be none other than American Beauty.

00:39The actress explained that at the time there were two models, herself and one other.

00:43But in the end, only a portion of the entire image is her.

00:46We did different versions of her hand and her stomach and my stomach and her hand and my hand and both.

00:51And my hand made it in and her stomach made it in.

00:54Hendricks explained that she had no idea the film would go on to be a massive box office and critical success.

01:00It was just a plain old gig. I probably got paid 100 bucks or something.

01:04I was just told to have a job.

01:06Didn't know what American Beauty was going to be and then finally saw it and I was like, hey, that's my hand.

01:10American Beauty went on to win five of the eight Academy Awards it was nominated for, including Best Picture.

01:16Hendricks now stars on NBC's Good Girls, which is currently in its fourth season.

01:20Watch the full clip. Head to THR.com.

01:23For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.