I remember fretting and weeping, and then it occurred to me that my discomfort was temporary, and the woman who I was playing, her discomfort was permanent. It just really centered me, and really quieted my soul for the next day's work. I just felt so sorry for her. I recognized then that I had a lot of work to do to get to a point where I could play her, because feeling that kind of sympathy for someone is no way to actually inhabit them.. She was just simple and she was trying to get by on a daily basis.
She's not sentimental about her pain. I had to have the same kind of attitude. I got teased and taunted about my skin. My one prayer to God was that I would wake up lighter skinned. The morning would come and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of the mirror because I wanted to see my face first.
Every day I would feel the disappointment of being just as dark as the day before. My complexion had always been an obstacle to overcome.
I couldn't believe that people were embracing a woman who looked so much like me as beautiful. It was perplexing and I wanted to reject it because I had begun to enjoy the seduction of inadequacy. But a flower couldn't help but bloom inside of me. I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos. Having stamina. I think that's what my three years at Yale rewarded me with, a kind of stamina.
And also building a kind of confidence in myself. At Yale they say, 'Hold on tightly. Let go lightly'. That's it. You hold on, and then you just let go with it and trust that when [the director] says 'Cut' and then when he says 'Action' again, it will be there.
She's not noble. He wasn't interested in a portrait of her as a noble savage. I had to move away from sympathy to a place of empathy, rather than just commenting on her situation, trying to buy people's love for her. Because she was just trying to get by on a day-to-day basis. Do it. And do it well. With a sense of purpose. And so, when my interest was in acting they were very supportive. My mother drove me to rehearsals every day at school.
My father was a thespian, so he can live vicariously. I realize that beauty was not a thing I could acquire or consume. It was something that I just had to be. My mother would say to me, "You can't eat beauty. It doesn't feed you. And what my mother meant when she said you can't eat beauty was that you can't rely on how you look to sustain you. What does sustain us That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul.
My mother taught me that your presentation is an expression of how much you care about yourself and those around you. My mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through external features.
Nyong'o returned to the States and, pursuing her interest in acting, earned a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in , having performed in works like The Winter's Tale with the school's Repertory Theatre.
Weeks before graduating she found out that she had landed a part in director Steve McQueen 's drama 12 Years a Slave. The Brad Pitt -produced film is based on the 19th century narrative written by Solomon Northup played by Chiwetel Ejiofor , a Northern-based free man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.
Nyong'o played the role of Patsey, an enslaved young woman who befriends Northup while being horrifically abused by plantation master Edwin Epps and his wife, portrayed by Michael Fassbender and Sarah Paulson.
For her performance in the film, Nyong'o earned a slew of award nominations, before taking home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Nyong'o has become a majestic fashion icon, with red-carpet appearances and pics in publications like InStyle and W. She also twice graced the cover of Vogue in a short span of time, appearing on the publication's July and October issues. However, Nyong'o's appearance on the November issue of Grazia U.
The magazine subsequently apologized for the editorial mishap, with photographer An Le taking the blame for his "incredibly monumental mistake. On her Instagram account, Nyong'o posted, "I can finally say it out loud and proud: I'm going to a galaxy far far away!
Nyong'o also prepared for her New York stage debut in autumn with the Public Theater's Off-Broadway production of Eclipsed , a drama about the struggles of several Liberian women during civil war. Eclipsed made its way to Broadway the following year in February, and both the play and Nyong'o herself soon earned Tony nominations.
Nyong'o returned to the big screen in with the feel-good Queen of Katwe , about an African girl who becomes a chess champion, and as the voice of the maternal wolf Raksha in a remake of Disney's The Jungle Book.
Nyong'o found herself in the middle of another buzzworthy project when she was tapped to join the Marvel flick Black Panther as Nakia, the love interest of Chadwick Boseman 's titular superhero. Additionally, the production was notable for shattering stereotypes about the limitations of marketing a largely Black cast. Later that summer, the actress was honored with induction into Hollywood's Walk of Fame class of Nyong'o went on to a co-starring role in the comedy-horror Little Monsters , which premiered at Sundance in early We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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