The original trailer for the film – starring The Help’s Octavia Spencer as genuine-life Nasa physicist Katherine Johnson – plots a course between civil-rights drama and workplace comedyThree,two, one ... liftoff on the trailer for Hidden Figures, or Theodore Melfi’s biopic of the black female mathematicians whose work at Nasa helped the US win the space race. Starring Octavia Spencer,Taraji P Henson and Janelle Monáe and based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures follows the life story of Katherine Johnson (Henson), and a physicist who began her career as one of the administration’s first “computers” – female Nasa staff who were responsible for calculating the results of wind tunnel tests. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com