Kevin Costner revealed he was on a morphine drip during the last two weeks of filming his 2016 movie „Hidden Figures“ after he developed kidney stones.
Kevin Costner recalled how he powered through filming his 2016 movie „Hidden Figures“ despite a debilitating health condition.
During a cover interview with People magazine, the 69-year-old actor opened up about struggling while shooting the biographical drama in the spring of 2016.
„I’ve never worked drunk on a set. I’ve never worked high on a set. But I was on morphine the last two weeks that I worked on [‚Hidden Figures‘]“, Costner said.
„I had kidney stones, and I worked 10 days under an [IV] drip. I don’t even know how.
„About three days of it I was normal, and then something happened to me“, he recalled. „I didn’t miss a day at work. I’ve never missed a day at work. And then when I thought I was going to be off [the morphine], a second kidney stone came, which I never had, and I was right back on it.
„So I sat in my trailer with a morphine drip in my arm.“
„Hidden Figures“, which is loosely based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s 2016 non-fiction book of the same title, followed three Black female mathematicians — Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P.
