It is a new twist for Taraji who is famously known for her acting role in ‘Empire’ to act on a science based movie – Hidden Figures. She plays as Katherine Johnson a mathematician who helps to launch astronaut John Glenn into the orbit together with two African- American women. The two women who are also starring in the movie are singer Janelle Monae and Octavia Spencer who is famously known to act in dystopian movies such as Divergent and Insurgent.
“This movie I had to do, I just felt like it was my duty. We always celebrate the astronauts, but we don’t celebrate the mathematicians behind it. But I didn’t know that these women existed and I was like, ‘Why are we just learning about them?’ And I couldn’t wait to meet Katherine Johnson, she’s still very much alive. She’s 98 now,” she said.
Hidden Figures is coming in theatres on January 6 2017. In the meantime, lets put up with the trailer.
