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.
