Glen Powell reveals he VOMITED after watching Hidden Figures because he was worried he ‘ruined’ the movie: ‘I puked in the bushes’

Glenn Powell makes it clear that he once thought his performance in Hidden Figures would have ruined the biographical drama.

The 35-year-old actor, who played real-life astronaut John Glenn, confessed to throwing up outside a studio lot after watching a rough cut of the film while it was in theaters. Therapus with Jake Shane podcast.

‘It stays in your own head. People forget that when you watch a rough cut of a movie, it probably feels like you’re watching footage of yourself being edited. So you sit there and you say, ‘I hate myself.’

‘I remember looking [Hidden Figures] for the first time on the Fox lot – and this was before all the effects were done, the music was there [and] the sound design – and I literally left the movie and threw up in the bushes.”

‘I thought I ruined this movie. I was like, all these women have done amazing performances and it’s like the legacy of these women – I was like, “I literally ruined this movie.” It feels like the most horrible thing you can do as an actor is just be horrible in a movie about real people who need a real story.”

For Hidden Figures, Powell played a true American hero in the role of astronaut John Glenn, who has the honor 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 he had somehow done a disservice to the memory of the women who helped get America to the moon during the Space Race leading up to the 1960s proven, as well as his other colleagues. stars.

Hidden Figures tells the story of three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) who worked for NASA as the US and Soviet Union pitted against each other fought out. the race to achieve superior supremacy in space travel.

Directed by Theodore Melfi, who worked from a screenplay he co-wrote with Allison Schroeder, Hidden Figures is loosely based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s nonfiction book of the same name.

Not only did it show the dramatic Space Race, but it also highlighted the racism and segregated facilities the three black ladies faced at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia and in their daily lives in the 1960s.

In addition to Henson, Spencer and Monáe, the cast also included 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 Earth, Powell stepped into the shoes of a true American hero.

That too could have played a role in the pressure Powell felt to keep up his end in the production as an actor.

Upon its release in December 2016, the film grossed $236.2 million at the worldwide box office against a budget of $25 million, making it a bona fide hit.

‘I remember looking [Hidden Figures] for the first time on the Fox lot – and this was before all the effects were done, the music was there [and] the sound design – and I literally left the movie and threw up in the bushes’; seen quietly

Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer play three female African-American mathematicians working for NASA during the Space Race to the 1960s

Along with the three leading ladies, Powell was also thought to be letting down his other co-stars such as Kevin Costner and Jim Parsons.

Powell is currently promoting his new romantic action film Hit Man, for which he stars and co-wrote the screenplay with director Richard Linklater.

Although mathematicians were eventually replaced by electronic computers, Mary Jackson earned her engineering degree and became NASA’s first female African American engineer.

As for Dorothy Vaughan, she remained NASA’s first African-American supervisor for many years, while Katherine Goble Johnson was accepted by Stafford as a co-author of the report, who would go on to calculate the trajectories for the Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle missions.

Powell is currently promoting his new romantic action comedy film Hit Man, which he stars in, which is now available to stream on Netflix.

He also co-wrote the screenplay with Richard Linklater, who is the director of the feature film that follows an undercover police contractor who poses as a reliable assassin as he tries to save a woman in distress.