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[MUSIC] Hi, I'm Octavia Spencer, and I play Dorothy Vaughan, the first African American female supervisor at NASA. Hi, I'm Taraji P. Henson, and I play Katherine Johnson, the mind that sent our men orbiting in space. Hey, I'm Janelle Monae, and I play Miss Mary Jackson, the first African American female engineer. And NASA. [MUSIC] I don't know anything about math. What I do share with [INAUDIBLE] Is her passion for what she loves to do. She loves numbers the way I love the craft of acting. My character Mary and myself have a lot of similarities. One, we both want to fight for something greater than ourselves. And speak up and speak out against injustices. Especially when it involves our race or our gender. We've come far, but I feel like we still have unfinished business. [MUSIC] Prior to the election, I would've said we have made excellent strides, and we have. But what this election has shown us is that there is a bigger chasm that we really could not comprehend. So I think there needs to be more of the Katherine, Mary Do the bond, moving each other forward, we need to champion each other. [MUSIC]
