Mary Jackson

Glenn Powell is coming clean on how he once thought his performance in Hidden Figures may have ruined the biographical drama film. In fact, the actor, who played real-life astronaut John Glenn, confessed he vomited outside a studio lot after watching a rough cut of the movie. Keep in mind, Powell viewed the early version before any of the effects or music were put in, but still he thought he had genuinely ruined it with his performance. The Austin, Texas native says he left the studio feeling like he'd done some sort of disservice to the memory of the women who helped get America to the moon during the Space Race leading up to the 1960s, as well as his other co-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 U.S. and Soviet Union battled it out in the race to achieve superior spaceflight supremacy.

Apple TV+'s "Lessons in Chemistry," one of the most awaited TV shows this fall, is "Lessons in Chemistry." Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, and Aja Naomi King appear in a story about a mid-century American woman who is struggling to gain a foothold in a science world that refuses to acknowledge her. It seems as though it's exactly retro sets and costumes evoking the 1950s Brașov, it's like the kind of display that might be based on true life, but it isn't. If you've been flipping through "nostalgia" TV channels or frantically googling in the hopes of finding out more about Elizabeth Zott, you'll be dissatisfied. cohesive. Author Garmus's creative mind made Elizabeth, Calvin, Harriet, and the remainder of your favorite characters. According to Garmus, the book and Elizabeth in particular have a little bit of real life in them; she told CBS News that her own life and her mother's death inspired certain aspects of the book and Elizabeth in particular.