Actor Kevin Costner is known for his leading roles in Westerns such as Open Range and Dances With Wolves. The veteran actor has been in the industry for over four decades and has a particular process when it comes to acting. The actor has also been a filmmaker and recently premiered his dream project Horizon: An American Saga at Cannes.
Costner played the role of Al Harrison, the director of the Space Task Group in the period drama Hidden Figures. The film starred Taraji P. Henson and was based on the lives of the African-American mathematicians who worked in the Space Task Group. Costner reportedly did not want to play the role initially but was reportedly convinced by the director’s passion.
Kevin Costner Initially Rejected His Role In Hidden Figures Kevin Costner in Yellowstone | Credits: Linson Entertainment/Bosque Ranch Productions/Treehouse Films/101 Studios/MTV Entertainment Studios
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Costner played the role of Al Harrison, the director of the Space Task Group in the period drama Hidden Figures. The film starred Taraji P. Henson and was based on the lives of the African-American mathematicians who worked in the Space Task Group. Costner reportedly did not want to play the role initially but was reportedly convinced by the director’s passion.
Kevin Costner Initially Rejected His Role In Hidden Figures Kevin Costner in Yellowstone | Credits: Linson Entertainment/Bosque Ranch Productions/Treehouse Films/101 Studios/MTV Entertainment Studios
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- 5/27/2024
- by Nishanth A
- FandomWire
There's no question that 2016's "Hidden Figures" faced an uphill battle from the beginning of its development. The film was only the third feature directed and co-written by an independent filmmaker, Theodore Melfi, who wrote the script with Allison Schroeder. A period piece set in the 1960s, it follows the true story of three brilliant Black mathematicians who join a task group at NASA in order to help America's space program, and there's no question that the women are the movie's heroines. Being released into a climate that was very hostile to both people of color and women at the time (aka the first months of the Trump administration) and not having a huge pedigree of A-list talent behind the camera, "Hidden Figures" would have to be great in order to be noticed, just like the women the film's about.
Surely, the studio executives at Fox Searchlight, being risk-averse as per their jobs,...
Surely, the studio executives at Fox Searchlight, being risk-averse as per their jobs,...
- 3/9/2024
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Taraji P. Henson’s star is in the ascendant – ‘P’ for Penda, for the curious among you. An increasingly familiar face in hit TV shows like Boston Legal, Person of Interest and Eli Stone, Henson has quietly been chiseling away at a Hollywood career for over a decade. It has been an unshowy rise: comfortable in ensemble pieces, she often selflessly lets other more gregarious actors take the limelight away from her.
Not that she hasn’t gone unnoticed by those in the critical know. She’s a multi-award-winner and as executive producer and star of Proud Mary, she is finally an above-the-title name. The action thriller from director Babk Najafi has Henson leading a cast which includes Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Danny Glover, Billy Brown , Xander Berkeley, and Margaret Avery. Henson brings her trademark charisma and presence to the screen as a hardworking hitwoman whose life derails when a...
Not that she hasn’t gone unnoticed by those in the critical know. She’s a multi-award-winner and as executive producer and star of Proud Mary, she is finally an above-the-title name. The action thriller from director Babk Najafi has Henson leading a cast which includes Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Danny Glover, Billy Brown , Xander Berkeley, and Margaret Avery. Henson brings her trademark charisma and presence to the screen as a hardworking hitwoman whose life derails when a...
- 7/24/2018
- by Cai Ross
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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