The costumes in the film about three black women who crunched numbers for NASA may not look high maintenance, but according to a recent article in The Huffington Post, Octavia said they were not comfortable.

“I just finally had a moment: ‘I’m not wearing a girdle! I’m just not doing it.” The director said, “You don’t have to wear the girdle! Why are you wearing a girdle?’”

The film was shot last year in Atlanta.  Octavia and her co-star Kirsten Dunst created the name “Girdlegate,” after sitting down for lunch and getting sick.  The girdles came off, and everyone was able to breathe a little better.

Hidden Figures is currently playing in theaters.