Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures (2016)

Timing: 2:7 (127 min)

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Photo 64

Actors and characters

Release date

2016-12-10

Country

United States

Production

Chernin Entertainment, Fox 2000 Pictures, Levantine Films

Genre

Drama, History

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$235 957 472

Website

http://www.hiddenfigures.com

Director

Theodore Melfi

Actors

Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Glen Powell, Ariana Neal, Saniyya Sidney
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Donna Gigliotti, Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin, Pharrell Williams, Theodore Melfi, Kevin Halloran, Renee Witt, Ivana Lombardi, Margot Lee Shetterly, Mimi Valdes

Operator

Mandy Walker

Composer

Hans Zimmer

Artist

Danny Brown

Audition

Victoria Thomas

Editing

Peter Teschner, Sasha Veneziano
All team (120)

• 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.
• 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 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 film *The Hunger Games: Mockingjay* (2014 and 2015).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• In the episode where Jim Parsons' character addresses NASA engineers about the need to calculate the trajectory of a spacecraft entering the atmosphere, Mark Armstrong is present. Actor Ken Struunk specifically invited the son of Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), commander of the lunar expedition of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, who became the first person to step on the Moon, to the filming.
• This is the second film in which the characters played by Mahershala Ali and Taraji P. Henson experience a strong attraction to each other. The first such film was David Fincher’s drama, *The Curious Case of Benjamin Button* (2008).
• When Octavia Spencer’s character shows the host her 1957 Chevrolet, the gearshift is always in the 'Park' position.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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).
• When Octavia Spencer's character shows the host her 1957 Chevrolet, the gearshift is always in the "Park" position.