Kevin Costner fought illness with morphine amid 'Hidden Figures' shooting

Kevin Costner fought illness with morphine amid Hidden Figures shooting
Kevin Costner fought illness with morphine amid 'Hidden Figures' shooting

Kevin Costner has exclusively revealed that he was battling illness and reliant on a morphine drip while filming the critically acclaimed movie Hidden Figures.

Sharing with PEOPLE, the Yellowstone actor said, "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].”

During the filming of his film, he had kidney stones and says he "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."

Though he "never missed a day of work," nevertheless he admitted, "I sat in my caravan with a morphine drip in my arm."

He remembered, "Eventually I had to," admitting that it was a really unpleasant experience, saying, "I wanted to cry, but there was everybody watching, so I didn't."

To note, Costner played NASA executive Al Harrison in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, which tells the actual tale of three intelligent Black women's contributions to the Space Race in the 1960s.

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