Hey guys, welcome to Young Hollywood. I'm Brandy Chang sitting in the Young Hollywood studio with Glenn Powell. Hi. What's up, what's up? What's going on? Everything's good? Everything's good?

Yeah, it's all, it's all gravy.

All gravy? So far. I like that. I I I I've never said that phrase before in my life. I don't know why I said it just now. Amazing. I don't know what kind of analogy we can go with this one. But you are in a hidden figures, which it is killing it. Is that gravy?

That's all gravy. That's gravy. It's all gravy.

You guys just beat out Star Wars. That's incredible.

Yeah, well, you know, obviously I'm a big fan of Star Wars. So you're not trying to prefer anybody to fail, but I love this movie so much that you obviously and it shows that there's like a there's an appetite for a movie like this, you know, it's not like on the page. I would say it's not like a super marketable movie. You know, three African-American women doing math, you know, in the '60s like I don't think anybody goes, that's going to make a lot of money at the box office. Um, but the fact is, it shows that, you know, strong women who are doing brilliant things and and and true stories that, you know, show the strength and brains of great women.

Equilateral, trapezoid, isosceles, tetrahedron. I've never seen a mind like the one your daughter has. You have to see what she becomes. Come on, we're going up. You have identification on you? We're just on our way to work at NASA, sir. I had no idea they hired. There are quite a few women working in the space program.

What about this movie in particular were you like, I need to jump on this project.

Well, I mean, you have you have, um, you know, a true story. I don't think there's a single guy on the planet that doesn't, um, want to play a hero like John Glenn.

It is a true story, right? Which it was an untold story pretty much until now, right? Like, why? I don't know a single person that knows the story. I did not know the story and I was astonished by it. Can you tell the audience a little bit about the story?

Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe play these three women who were responsible for the math that shot John Glenn up into space and were also subsequently responsible for like the moon landings and things like that. And it was kind of been a time of segregation where it was not easy to be black. It definitely was not easy to be a woman. So the fact that they were the ones responsible for this like great American moment is even crazier that they kind of accomplished this.

Absolutely. Why do you think it's so important for this story to be told now?

Number one, I think it's a time in our country we're very divided, whether it's politically or just, you know, in terms of the racial tension. I think it's a movie about Americans coming together to accomplish something great, whether you're black, white, whether you're man, woman, you know, I think it's a, it's about people coming together and looking at the contents of your heart and the brain, rather than, you know, the things that just don't matter. And so I think that's a, you know, a reason why it's so great. And I also think it's about, you know, great men who are, who are progressive and comfortable and, um, secure enough to support great women. You know, so I think that's why it's also an important movie.

That's John Glenn. He's the only Marine Corps pilot. Gentlemen, if we may, much to see around here. Like, we haven't shaken all the hands yet. It's coming this way. Look straight ahead. Look right ahead. Ladies, I didn't want to run off without saying hello. Seems to be in a big rush around here. Well, the Russians certainly aren't slowing down any. You know, they can't build a damn refrigerator. How the heck they beat us into space? What do you ladies do for NASA? Calculate your trajectories, launch and landing. I can't get anywhere without the numbers. No, sir.

Um, I watched something actually on Kimmel, you were on Kimmel and you were talking about how your mom has been in every movie that you've been in. If it's if it's like a war-free zone, yeah, like I just got back from Jordan and I shot a movie over there and I did not bring my mom over there. You're like, no, mom, you stay home for this one.

No, I want to keep her around. You you don't want to put your mom in harm's way so she can have an extra role. But yeah, you're like, I know you really want to do this, mom, but like here's the

Yeah, but for the rest of

people have been really cool about it, you know, and I think now it's even kind of expected in a great way that, um, when people kind of find out that my mom's been in everything, you know, directors are now kind of going, where do we put her? And everybody wants some. She's a lunch lady. She's Marge the lunch lady and like Rick gave her a solid camera and this one, yeah, she's like a she's like a, uh, NASA engineer and she's like literally right next to Kirsten Dunst.

Oh, that's so funny. What was the first movie that she appeared in? Was this like by accident, she was just on set with you and they're like, yeah, like come on in or, you know?

Uh, well, I was I did this movie Spy Kids 3 when I was like 14 and she uh, she's happened to kind of be on set and they kind of needed adult spies. So she and my dad, you know, jumped in and and were adult spies and I think she just loved the attention. I think she just had a view of it.

Yeah, she craves it now. She expects it. She's a stage mom in a whole different way, right?

Yeah, she's the least stage mom a mom ever. I mean,

Absolutely.

I've I've met stage moms, Um, and she is she's she's the best kind if there is one. Yeah, she's just supportive and loves being around set and, um, you know, that's the great part. I got to see like, um, I did a movie with Denzel Washington called The Great Debaters and then Mel Gibson was in The Expendables and I saw them both at the Critics Choice Awards and the first thing they asked was, how's your mom? You know, it's nice to kind of include your family in and have other people love your family as much as you do. You know.

Amazing. I love that. And then I want to go back to Hidden Figures. I read a really nice quote that you that you said about the late John Glenn and you said that he's a true American hero, that he saw a future for America that a lot of people didn't see and that he had an essence that defined America, which I think is such a lovely quote and it really talks about the legacy that he's left behind. And I want to ask you, what is the legacy that you want to leave behind?

I was actually, I went to a baseball game with Costner, um, and we talked about this and I was like, I was talking about how, you know, what what he thinks it is to be, you know, in this kind of position because obviously I'm trying to get to where he he already is. Um, he just said, you know, you got to think about when you're making movies like, what is the legacy you're going to leave behind? You know, what what are the movies that people are going to look back after you're dead going, oh, you know, what kind of messages did he say, you know, what was he what was he trying to say to the world based on what he the stories he was a part of. And you know, that's that's why I'm really proud of this movie is I think if uh, I don't know when I'm when I'm going to, you know, kick the bucket, but this is a movie I'm really proud of and I'm proud of the message it says and I'm proud of just kind of be in the orbit of these great women and this great story. No pun intended.

Yeah, yeah. Amazing. Well, thank you so much, Dan. So nice to have you.

Appreciate it.