Lupita Nyong’o appears fairly in blue whereas attending a screening of her new film The Wild Robotic held at CMX Cinemas Dolphin 19 on Wednesday (September 18) in Miami, Fla.
The 41-year-old actress stars as the principle character, robotic Roz, after she is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and should be taught to adapt to the tough environment, steadily constructing relationships with the animals on the island and changing into the adoptive father or mother of an orphaned gosling.
Watch the trailer right here!
Lupita simply launched her new podcast, Thoughts Your Personal, and within the first episode, she opened up about embracing her Kenyan accent in spite of everything these years of attempting to sound American.
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Should you didn’t know, Lupita was born in Mexico the place her father was educating, however moved to Kenya on the age of three.
She recalled years of getting “an advanced relationship with the way in which I communicate” and “with the intention to create this podcast, I needed to get very comfy with my voice.”
Whereas she embraced her African accent in faculty at Hampshire School, she modified it when she studied performing at Yale College of Drama.
“I made this pact with myself that I’d learn to sound American in a means that might assure me a profession in performing,” she shared on the podcast, “as a result of clearly I didn’t know very many individuals in motion pictures and tv with Kenyan accents. There was simply no marketplace for that.”
All of her voice classes paid off after a casting director was stunned studying she was from Kenya. “She mentioned, ‘Oh my goodness, you don’t have an accent.’ And I used to be without delay so elated and likewise so crushed. I had ridden myself of myself, form of,” Lupita mentioned.
Nevertheless, earlier than beginning the press tour for her film 12 Years a Slave in 2014, she instructed her publicists she needed to embrace her Kenyan accent extra.
“I mentioned, ‘I’ve determined that from tomorrow I’m going to return to my authentic accent. I wish to ship a message that being an African is sufficient.’ That they had by no means heard me communicate in a Kenyan accent,” she shared.
Lupita recalled her mom embraced her determination.
“She mentioned, ‘Your accent is consultant of your life expertise.’ That gave me solace, that an accent involves being out of your life… and identical to pores and skin and hair, it may well change and it’s okay,” she mentioned. “I suppose this accent is named Lupita! I don’t know who may declare it however me.”
Should you missed it, Lupita not too long ago revealed that she shall be voting in her first US election this yr, and shared her endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris.
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