It’s gonna take quite a lot of kidney stones to maintain Kevin Costner down.
The Academy Award winner revealed that he “labored 10 days underneath an IV drip” whereas filming his function as Al Harrison within the 2016 biographical drama Hidden Figures, however he “by no means missed a day of labor.”
“I’ve by no means labored drunk on a set. I’ve by no means labored excessive on a set, however I used to be on morphine the final two weeks that I labored on [Hidden Figures],” Costner instructed Folks, including: “I don’t even understand how. About three days of it I used to be regular after which one thing occurred to me.”
In between scenes, Costner mentioned he “sat in my trailer with a morphine drip in my arm” and shortly needed to hold his sleeves rolled all the way down to cowl up the IV bruising. “Finally I needed to. I wished to cry, however there was everyone watching, so I didn’t,” he mentioned.
Costner raved that “it was magic” working with director Theodore Melfi and reuniting with Black or White (2014) co-star Octavia Spencer on the movie.
Jim Parsons, Taraji P. Henson and Kevin Costner in Hidden Figures (2016). (twentieth Century Fox Movie Corp./Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Primarily based on the e book by Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures starred Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monáe as Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Goble Johnson and Mary Jackson, three African-American mathematicians who had been instrumental in successful the House Race for NASA.
Spencer earned a Finest Supporting Actress nomination on the Academy Awards and Golden Globes for her efficiency, and the movie additionally obtained a Finest Image nod on the Oscars.