Original article on graphic artist Laurent Durieux has designed some of the most gorgeous movie posters of the past decade, working not for the studios but in custom-published runs just for collectors and fans. There can be points where you're ashamed, but you can also be thrilled and realize that you can be part of history, too, by altering the way you're going to behave going forward."Įmail Sarah Lewin at or follow her Follow us, Facebook and Google+. "It's our history, and we would do well to know more about our history," Costner told. In filming the women's story, the actors said they hope to reveal truths about the time period as well as the extraordinary accomplishments of the women portrayed in the movie. "I think that was a central part, and I think the movie's done a spectacular job of being true to the real story of these women and their struggles." "I think the most important thing to get right historically this movie was the real story about these three women and be true to their experience, both the struggles they had as well as the successes they had," said Bill Barry, NASA's historian. But the team tried to capture the essence of the women's stories, Melfi said. The filmmakers simplified or synthesized some things for the film, Melfi said, like Parson's engineer character, or the head of the Space Task Group, played by Kevin Costner, whose character was an amalgam of a few different directors. Throughout scriptwriting and filming, the movie's creative team consulted with NASA to ensure that details about the mathematics and science, as well as about how the organization worked, were true to life. Kevin Costner - who plays Al Harrison, an amalgam of three heads of NASA Langley's Space Task Force - poses in the meticulously recreated mission control for the 2017 film "Hidden Figures." (Image credit: Hopper Stone) But I was very grateful to play what I felt was an important part of the progress of the story, even if it wasn't necessarily a shining example of humanity always." "The chance to engage in scenes with somebody where you are being an impediment to them is actually enjoyable, because there's a friction to it. "I felt pretty clear pretty quickly about what my role was in the telling of the story, which was to be an impediment to somebody," Parsons said. To research his character, an engineer who wasn't based on any historic individual, Jim Parsons studied the career paths and backgrounds of real engineers who were a part of the Space Task Group, in order to create an original character who would be a credible product of that time period.
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"She had to study her enemy, and so I had to really problem-solve how to get what I needed," Monáe said. I had to go in and look at it like a chess game - how can I get this judge to empathize with me? How can I connect? Mary didn't have the freedom of speech that we have today, and her brothers and sisters were being lynched for merely looking at a white person in a way that they may not have deemed to be respectful," Monáe said. Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) offers help to NASA mission specialist Karl Zielinski (Olek Krupa) in a shot from "Hidden Figures." (Image credit: Hopper Stone) She never once said, 'I.' She said, 'We.'" Henson said she tried to bring that selflessness to her depiction of Johnson. "What I got from her was her humility, her selflessness. "Katherine Johnson is still very much alive … so I have to meet her, first thing first," Henson said. Taraji Henson played Katherine Johnson, the mathematician at the film's center, and the actress had more than background research to work with Henson met with Johnson, who's 98 years old, to get a feel for the character and how the mathematician viewed her time at NASA. Melfi had the actors look through civil rights images by photographer Gordon Parks, as well, to find the movie's place in history. Henson, is joined by her co-workers Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) as she greets astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell), the man destined to become the first American to orbit Earth. In the upcoming film "Hidden Figures," Katherine G.