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Lupita Nyong'o used to have a fear of cats. The 41-year-old actress admitted things were so bad at one stage that she couldn't even be in the same room as a feline but she had to overcome her fear to convincingly play cat owner Sam in new movie 'A Quiet Place: Day One'. She told HELLO! magazine: "I had a real fear of them before this movie. I couldn't even ben in the same room as a cat, so that wasn't going to work. "But I got some therapy and very slowly got over my fear, to the point that I was able to look convincing as the devoted cat owner that Sam is - hopefully." Lupita also revealed sh...
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Lupita Nyong'o adopted a rescue cat to help her through a "hard time" and she now can't "imagine life without" him. The '12 Years A Slave' star used to be scared of cats, but she grew to love Schnitzel - the furry co-star she worked with on new movie 'A Quiet Place: Day One' - and she decided to get a cat of her own after going through a personal crisis revealing Yoyo moved in and "pried her heart open". She told PEOPLE: "This film [ 'A Quiet Place: Day One'] forced me to learn about cats and I had to look like I loved the cat. In the process I actually fell in love [with the cat]. "There's so...
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Lupita Nyong’o gets offered parts with “a lot” of “darkness and drama”. The 41-year-old’s breakout role was playing raped, beaten and abused Patsey in Sir Steve McQueen’s plantation-era ‘12 Years a Slave’, and she says ever since then she’s been flooded with movie offers to play bleak roles – even though she wants to venture into comedy. Lupita, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her work in 2013’s ’12 Years’ told People: “I don’t get comedic roles offered to me. Ever. I’m known for dramatic roles, so I tend to get that kind of role. Lots of depth, darkness. “I love depth. I’m not say...
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Lupita Nyong’o felt the “pressure on” after she won an Oscar. The ’12 Years a Slave’ actress, 41, was handed the trophy for best supporting actress for her role in Sir Steve McQueen’s 2013 19th century-set slavery shocker, said she was left feeling like she could never fail in her acting career after getting accolade. She told People: “It definitely put the pressure on. It was my first movie, and now I had received what is considered the pinnacle of one’s achievement as an actor. “So there I was, like, ‘Okay, what happens now? I can’t afford to fail’.” When asked to detail the worst career adv...
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Lupita Nyong’o found her cancer storyline in ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ “very therapeutic”. The ’12 Years a Slave’ actress, 41, stars as a terminally ill patient in the monster apocalypse horror prequel who is in a hospice when the film starts, and said the role helped her deal with her shock over her ‘Black Panther’ co-star and friend Chadwick Boseman – who was killed by colon cancer in 2020 aged 43. Lupita told People: “It was scary to have to go there… (the character) is really facing their mortality, even before this apocalypse takes place, and whose life is slipping between her fingers. “Th...
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Lupita Nyong’o says ending 'A Quiet Place: Day One' with Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good' was a perfect choice. In the horror prequel, Lupita's cancer-stricken character Sam makes a striking choice at the end of the movie and Lupita believes writer-director Michael Sarnoski made the perfect choice of song to accompany the ending. She told USA Today: "It’s tragic, but it’s also satisfying that Sam is going out on her own terms. Nina Simone has an inbuilt melancholy in her voice, and it comes across in that song. It’s in complete contrast to what she's saying – the words are, ‘And I’m feeling good.’...
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Lupita Nyong'o is determined to keep her personal life out of the spotlight. The 41-year-old actress has been romantically linked to actor Joshua Jackson in recent months - but Lupita wants her private life to remain private. The Hollywood star - who split from TV commentator Selema Masekela in 2023 - told PEOPLE: "There's so much of my life that is public, to also make my personal life a part of the public conversation, it's a liability. "What I learned is when things go south, then recovering from that moment takes longer because everybody knows. "So in the name of just being allowed to have...
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Lupita Nyong'o is fascinated by the "heightened nature" of the horror genre. The 41-year-old actress plays the lead role in the new film 'A Quiet Place: Day One' – which takes place as killer aliens target anybody making noise – and thinks that horror provides a rare opportunity for audiences to be "openly scared". Speaking to Variety at the movie's New York City premiere on Wednesday (26.06.24), Lupita said: "This genre helps us exercise emotions that we are otherwise running away from a lot of the time, we don't get permission to be openly scared in our real life. "I found myself coming (bac...
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Taylor Swift helped Lupita Nyong'o to overcome her self-doubts. The 41-year-old actress has recalled listening to Taylor's tunes amid her mental health struggles, and the pop star actually helped to lift Lupita's spirits. The movie star said on the latest episode of 'Hot Ones': "When I was working in London on 'Star Wars', I was going through a lot of self-doubt because it was the second thing I had done. "I was getting a little depressed. My best friend came to London and Taylor had just released 'Shake It Off', and he played it for me to like get me into better spirits and we just jumped on ...
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Lupita Nyong'o overcame her fear of cats to star in 'A Quiet Place: Day One'. The 41-year-old actress has a feline companion throughout the psychological thriller film, and Lupita ultimately managed to overcome her fears in order to shoot the movie. She told 'Entertainment Tonight': "I had to get over my fear of cats to make this movie to begin with. "I was very afraid of cats before I made this movie. It's actually why I hesitated about whether I would accept this role or not because of my fear of cats. I had to get over my fear of cats before I could start this movie. But they were they were...
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