Glen Powell Originally Thought He 'Ruined' the Movie 'Hidden Figures'
Glen Powell thought he ruined Hidden Figures.
The actor, who portrayed astronaut John Glenn in the 2016 movie, made a recent appearance on the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast, and spoke out seeing a rough cut of the movie.
“It does get in your own head,” he began.
“People forget that when you’re watching a rough cut of a movie, it’s probably like watching the footage of yourself that you’re having to edit. So you sit there and you’re like, ‘I hate myself.’”
“I remember watching [Hidden Figures] for the first time on the Fox lot — and this was before all the effects were done, the music was in [and] the sound design — and I literally left the movie, and I puked in the bushes,” he continued.
He said he truly thought he “ruined” the Theodore Melfi-directed movie starring Octavia Spencer, Taraji P Henson and Janelle Monáe.
“I was like, ‘All these women put in these great performances,’ and it’s like the legacy of these women. I was like, ‘I literally ruined this movie.’ It feels like the most atrocious thing you can do as an actor is just be terrible in a movie about real-life people that need a real-life story.”
However, once he saw the final cut of Hidden Figures, he changed his mind.
“Once the music gets in there, it starts being polished a little bit. We all want to be good … and nobody wants to be the weak point in a movie, especially when you’re talking about real-life stories.”
Watch him explain…
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