Courtesy of Rudy Horneīefore shooting began, Horne met with writer-director Ted Melfi. Henson got private math lessons – and homework – from professor Rudy Horne to play her Hidden Figures role. After all, he had a strong background in physics and taught applied math - how math can solve real-world problems. When 20th Century Fox came calling, Morehouse College recommended Horne. So the production needed a local math expert to work with the cast. Hidden Figures was filmed in Atlanta, not Hollywood. And he gave this acclaimed actress plenty of homework!
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But for a time, he also put in extra time on a movie set, teaching formulas to Taraji P. Horne teaches math to students at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. We’ll also meet an aerospace engineer who reveals how she got to NASA and what it’s like to work there today.
This included the dialogue, the action and every mathematical formula shown. These experts worked closely with Hollywood filmmakers to ensure everything was correct. And now they’re finally getting the widespread respect and visibility that their achievements deserved.īringing accuracy to this uplifting story on the big screen would not have been possible without the help of experts in math and in NASA’s history. Henson in the movie, and her colleagues Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) were still able to perform important work. But Katherine Johnson, played by Taraji P. (NASA is short for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.) Opportunities at the space agency for women and for people of color, back then, did not match those for white men. The film focuses on three women in the 1960s who worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The 2016 movie was based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s book of the same name. Hopper Stone, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Henson works the numbers as Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures. The real heroes of the film are the female African-American mathematicians who worked behind the scenes - as human “computers” - to make sure the critical numbers added up for plotting Glenn’s safe return. Or they weren’t until the movie Hidden Figures recounted the story.īut the movie isn’t really about Glenn. Few people today are aware of how uncertain it was as to whether he’d make it home. In February 1962, astronaut John Glenn made history as the first American to orbit Earth.
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