Casting call in USA: Jessica Chastain’s New NASA Series BASHED as a “Bootleg” ‘Hidden Figures’

Jessica Chastain’s new show about women in the 1960s who participated in a NASA space program is getting bashed online and called a “rip off” of the hit Atlanta filmed movie Hidden Figures. 

Chastain’s new show has the title Mercury 13 and will center around the story of an experiment created in the 1960s by scientist and physician William Randolph Lovelace II, to see if women could pass the same rigorous physical and mental tests by the men of NASA’s Mercury program. 13 women, dubbed decades later as “the Mercury 13,” advanced through the tests until the experiment was shut down by the U.S. Navy.

@vulture is it gonna be entitled “Schmidden Schmigures?” ?

— Shaefromthebay2theA (@shaebutter76) February 9, 2017

Do y’all see what’s going on here? https://t.co/75lIdP6uJt

— Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) February 9, 2017

When Black women do something extraordinary, someone always has to ask, “Well what about white women?” As if we forgot that they exist.

— Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) February 9, 2017

@MorganJerkins Basically white women after Hidden Figures, to he honest. pic.twitter.com/HGg7gQqJt5

— The Goddess of Light (@GoddessCru) February 9, 2017

Jessica Chastain is getting attacked for making a bootleg hidden Figures, spare me the pain and suffering!!!! pic.twitter.com/liko5DzTFo

— Sabrina (@emilysblunt) February 9, 2017

Hidden Figures stars Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae and Octavia Spencer as three female, African-American NASA mathematicians who helped with the space program that helped launch John Glenn into space. The movie ended up being a hit and earned over $100 million domestically.

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