Taraji P. Henson opens a painful moment while filming

Taraji P. Henson is becoming vulnerable about a difficult time in his life while filming the 2016 film “Hidden Figures”.

The student of the University of Howard, known for his papers in “The Color Purple” and the drama of FX “Empire”, has worked to build a remarkable career. But the trip has sometimes been painful, as she revealed In the Episode on Tuesday of the podcast “Legacy Talk with Lena Waithe”.

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In the episode, Waithe asks Henson how he felt delivering a fundamental monologue in “hidden figures” in which, like the katherine mathematics Johnson, she He explains to a supervisor played by Kevin Costner that his “long breaks” at work are caused by having to use a legregated segregated bath. His character revealed how racism directly affected his ability to act.

“Honestly, I was going through something very tragic in my life. A loved one was suffering, and we were trying to keep them alive,” Henson revealed.

At that time, said the actor, he had instructed his makeup artist to “keep them on the line” and “not let them hang.”

“I said:” And we have to find out if we call 911, if the police appear, they could shoot them. We want paramedics to appear, “he said.” So, I’m dealing with that. I am running down the hall because I am trying to be out of the ear, so no one listens. So I’m running down the hall in the shots to keep the person on the phone, and I’m running to make the scene. This goes in all that scene. “

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Henson described the filming of the monologue as an experience outside the body molded by the emotional stress that was low.

“I was present. I did it. And then, as soon as they shouted ‘cut’, I was running down the hall,” Henson recalled.

The actor starred alongside Octavia Spencer (who played the Mathematics Dorothy Vaughan) and Janelle Monáe (who played the engineer Mary Jackson) in the film, portraying three African -American women of real life who worked in NASA during the space race, and helped to launch the United States into the orbit.