Glenn Powell is confessing how he once thought his performance in Hidden Figures might have ruined the biographical drama film.
In fact, the actor, 35, who played real-life astronaut John Glenn, confessed that he vomited outside a studio after watching an early cut of the film while appearing on the show. Therapist with Jake Shane podcast.
It gets into your head. People forget that when you’re watching the rough cut of a movie, it’s probably like watching footage of yourself that you have to edit. Then you sit there and say, “I hate myself.”
“I remember seeing (Hidden Figures) for the first time on the Fox lot, and this was before all the effects, music (and) sound design was done, and I literally left the movie and threw up in the bushes. ‘
‘I thought I had ruined this movie. I thought, all these women gave great performances and it’s like the legacy of these women. I thought, “I literally ruined this movie.” “It seems like the most atrocious thing you can do as an actor is be terrible in a movie about real-life people who need a real-life story.”
Glen Powell, 35, had such a strong reaction to seeing the movie Hidden Figures for the first time during a rough cut that he vomited outside the studio thinking he had ruined it.
For Hidden Figures, Powell played a true American hero in astronaut John Glenn, who has the distinction of being the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth.
The Austin, Texas, native says he left the studio feeling like he had done a disservice to the memory of the women who helped put America to the moon during the space race that preceded the 1960s, as well as his other companions. stars.
Hidden Figures tells the story of three African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked for NASA while the United States and the Soviet Union fought the race. to achieve superior supremacy in spaceflight.
Directed by Theodore Melfi, who worked from a screenplay he co-wrote with Allison Schroeder, Hidden Figures is loosely based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Not only did it show the high drama of the space race, but it also highlighted the racism and segregated facilities that the three black women faced at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and in their daily lives in the 1970s. 1960.
Along with Henson, Spencer and Monáe, the cast also featured the likes of Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali and Aldis Hodge.
Playing John Glenn, who has the distinction of being the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, Powell stepped into the shoes of a true American hero.
That could also have influenced the pressure Powell felt in delaying his role in the production as an actor.
Upon its release in December 2016, the film grossed $236.2 million at the global box office against a budget of $25 million, making it a true success.
‘I remember seeing (Hidden Figures) for the first time on the Fox lot, and this was before all the effects, music (and) sound design was done, and I literally left the movie and threw up in the bushes.’ ; seen in a frame
Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer play three African-American mathematicians working for NASA during the space race in the 1960s.
Along with the three main leads, Powell also thought she had let down her other co-stars, such as Kevin Costner and Jim Parsons.
Powell is currently promoting her new romantic action film Hit Man, in which she plays the lead role and co-wrote the script with director Richard Linklater.
Although mathematicians were eventually replaced by electronic computers, Mary Jackson earned her engineering degree and became NASA’s first African-American engineer.
As for Dorothy Vaughan, she continued as NASA’s first African-American supervisor for years, while Katherine Goble Johnson was accepted by Stafford as a co-author of the report, who would go on to calculate the trajectories of the Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle missions.
Powell is currently promoting her new romantic action comedy film Hit Man, in which she plays the lead role and which is now available to stream on Netflix.
He also co-wrote the script with Richard Linklater, who serves as director of the film which follows an undercover police contractor posing as a trusted hitman while trying to save a woman in need.