The actor had to roll down his sleeves to hide the IV bruising during filming of the 2016 drama.
Kevin Costneris shedding light on his difficult time filmingHidden Figures.
“I’ve never worked drunk on a set.
Taraji P. Henson and Kevin Costner in ‘Hidden Figures’.courtesy Everett Collection
I had kidney stones and I worked 10 days under an [IV] drip.
I don’t even know how.
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So I sat in my trailer with a morphine drip in my arm.
His IV treatment also left him with bruising that affected his performance in the film.
“I wanted to cry, but there was everybody watching, so I didn’t.”
However, herecently toldEntertainment Weeklythat hes not fretting too much over how the film performs at the box office.
“I’ve lived with movies and what happens to them on their opening weekend,” he said.
“If we put so much pressure on that, we’re bound to be disappointed.
And that’s really important to me in this process.”
