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"Empire" star Taraji P. Henson coming to Atlanta for NASA movie

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By Jennifer Brett
Feb 24, 2016

"Empire" star and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer, who won an Oscar for  "The Help," team up on "Hidden Figures," filming soon in Atlanta.  MORE: Guess where Taraji P. Henson loves to shop?

Explore Octavia Spencer, Chris Evans on the Georgia set of "Gifted"
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The movie sounds fascinating. Per imdb: "A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions."

More details coming soon. For now, if you missed it, Taraji's acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was epic:

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