The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
This marks the third time Octavia Spencer has starred alongside one of the actresses from a Spider-Man film. She starred in The Help (2011) with Bryce Dallas Howard and Emma Stone, both of whom have played Gwen Stacey. Dallas Howard starred as Gwen Stacey in Spider-Man 3 (2007), while Stone played the role in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). As well as this, Spencer had a cameo in Spider-Man (2002), which starred Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson.
Katherine Johnson:
How can you be possibly ogling these white men?
Mary Jackson:
It's equal rights. I have the right to see fine in every color
When Katherine's hands are briefly shown typing up a report (one of the many she was shown typing for Stafford), she is wearing an engagement ring on her left 4th finger months before she and Jim are engaged in the movie's plot sequence.
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