Jan 30, 2017 · Al Harrison is a composite character created for the film. During the shoot, Costner got kidney stones. "I was extremely ill," Costner told THR. "I was on morphine and Vicodin. But …

White supervisor Vivian Mitchell assigns Katherine to assist Al Harrison's Space Task Group, given her skills in analytic geometry. She becomes the first Black woman on the team; head …

Jan 3, 2017 · In researching the Hidden Figures true story, we learned that Kevin Costner's character, Al Harrison, is based on three different directors at NASA Langley during Katherine …

But in reality, Harrison was not a real historical figure. The movie’s director wasn’t able to secure the rights to portray the real person he wanted to, so created a character who was a …

Jan 7, 2017 · Hidden Figures has given us is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to tell a remarkable and important story of NASA’s past, as well as those of our progress and ambitions for the future of …

Jan 12, 2017 · Al Harrison was not a real person, but a fictionalized composite of three NASA directors at Langley during the time. (The writer couldn’t get the rights to the guy he initially …

Jan 12, 2022 · Actor Kevin Costner plays Al Harrison, a supervisor who heads the Space Task Group that Katherine Johnson worked with. In the movie, he ends bathroom segregation …

Aug 12, 2021 · Per the NASA website, the characters of Al Harrison (Kevin Costner), Vivian Mitchell (Kirsten Dunst), and Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons) are all composites, meant to …

Find the genius among those geniuses. Pull us all up. We get to the peak together, or we don't get there at all. Al Harrison : Within these walls, who... who makes the rules? Katherine Johnson : …

HIDDEN FIGURES the movie, scheduled for general release on January 13, 2017, has assembled an all-star cast to bring the story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary …