Hidden Figures
Meet the women you don't know, behind the mission you do.
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$25 000 000
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$235 956 898
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Donna Gigliotti, Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin, Pharrell Williams, Theodore Melfi, Kevin Halloran, Renee Witt, Ivana Lombardi, Margot Lee Shetterly, Mimi Valdes
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Wynn Thomas, Danny Brown
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Peter Teschner, Sasha Veneziano
Whole Team (120)
Whole Team (120)
Short description
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the episode where Jim Parsons' character addresses NASA engineers about the need to calculate the spacecraft's entry trajectory, Mark Armstrong is present. Actor Ken Strunk specifically invited the son of Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), commander of the Apollo 11 lunar expedition and the first man to step on the Moon, to the set.
- When Octavia Spencer's character shows the host her 1957 Chevrolet, the gearshift is always in the "Park" position.
- In the NASA facilities where mathematical calculations were performed, cool colors—white, shades of gray, silver—prevailed. This contrasts sharply with the warm colors of Al Harrison's office, played by Kevin Costner, and the homes of the main characters.
- This is the second film in which the characters played by Mahershala Ali and Taraji P. Henson experience a strong mutual attraction. The first such film was David Fincher's drama 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' (2008).
- Mark Armstrong appears in the episode where Jim Parsons' character addresses the NASA engineers about the need to calculate the spacecraft's atmospheric reentry trajectory. Actor Ken Shrink specifically invited the son of Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)—the commander of the Apollo 11 moon expedition and the first human to step on the Moon—to the set.
- The NASA facilities where mathematical calculations were performed were dominated by cold colors—white, shades of gray, and silver. This contrasts sharply with the warm colors of Al Harrison's office, played by Kevin Costner, and the homes of the main female characters.
- At the 7-minute mark, we see a world map with the North Pole in the center. The map shows contemporary national borders, not those of 1961 (when the film is set). Specifically, all the republics of the USSR are already shown as separated, as are the republics of Yugoslavia; Germany is unified, but Sudan is already divided into Sudan and South Sudan, as is Czechoslovakia.
- When Octavia Spencer's character shows the leads her 1957 Chevrolet, the gear shift is always in the 'park' position.
- The issue of separate restrooms for white and Black people never arose for Katherine Johnson, which cannot be said about Mary Jackson. It was after Jackson's angry outburst on this topic that she was transferred to a group working with the wind tunnel. As for Johnson, she deliberately refused to use restrooms specifically designated for Black people.
- The second film in which Mahershala Ali and Taraji P. Henson's characters experience a strong attraction to each other. The first such film was David Fincher's drama "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008).
- In reality, the relationship between the engineers and the African American women who performed mathematical calculations for NASA was more even than depicted in the film.
- When Taraji P. Henson agreed to play the lead role in the film and began preparing for production, she met with 98-year-old Katherine Johnson. The actress learned that her character had graduated from school at 14 and earned a college degree at 18. When a screening of the already filmed and edited movie was arranged for Johnson, she said she liked it and then wondered whose idea it had been to make a film about her.
- In one episode, Katherine Johnson's colleagues demand that she use a separate coffee pot. Everyone in the film drinks Chock full o'Nuts coffee. It is interesting to note that in 1957, this corporation became one of the first in New York with a Black vice president. He was Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), the legendary baseball player who had already ended his sports career. Moreover, Robinson was the first to break down segregation barriers in professional baseball.
- Some of the control panels shown in Mission Control were originally created for Ron Howard's historical drama "Apollo 13" (1995). They were also used in other films, for example, in both parts of Francis Lawrence's dystopian series "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay" (2014 and 2015).
- Some of the control panels shown in the Mission Control Center were originally created for Ron Howard's historical drama 'Apollo 13' (1995). They were also used in other films, for example, in both parts of Francis Lawrence's dystopian 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay' (2014 and 2015).
- When Taraji P. Henson agreed to play the lead role in the film and began preparing for filming, she met with 98-year-old Katherine Johnson. The actress learned that her character graduated from high school at the age of 14 and received a college degree at the age of 18. When Johnson was shown the finished and edited film, she said she liked it and then asked who came up with the idea to make a film about her.
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