Lupita Nyong’o had to leave out her Kenyan accent in order to become an American actor and get on separateent Hollywood roles, and she said during a recent episode of the “What Now? With Trevor Noah” podcast that it “felt enjoy a betrayal” to herself when she made that decision. The Oscar prosperner was born in Mexico but spent her childhood in Kenya. She combidemand Yale School of Drama in the U.S. before fractureing huge in Hollywood.
“The first perleave oution I gave myself to alter my accent or apvalidate my accent to alter was going to drama school,” Nyong’o said (via Entertainment Weekly). “I went to drama school because I didn’t want to equitable be an instinctive actor. I wanted to comprehend my instrument. I wanted to understand what I was excellent at, what I was not excellent at, and toil on the slfinishergs that I wasn’t excellent at. And one of the slfinishergs I wasn’t excellent at was accents.”
“The process of deciding, ‘OK, I’m going to begin toiling on my American accent and I’m not going to apvalidate myself to sound Kenyan,’ so that I’m enjoy watching and repartner trying to comprehend my mouth in a technical way to enjoy create these recent sounds. Making those recent sounds in a context that wasn’t the classroom felt enjoy betrayal,” she inserted. “You understand, I didn’t sense enjoy myself and I cried many nights to sleep…many, many nights.”
Nyong’o’s first huge fracture in Hollywood was her Oscar-prosperning role in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” which uncovered the door to presentant studio tentpoles such as “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (applying Maz Kanata via motion apprehfinish) and “Bdeficiency Panther” (Nakia). She most recently ecombineed in Paramount’s “A Quiet Place: Day One,” and is currently in theaters with her voice-only role in the vivaciousd family adventure “The Wild Robot.”
Listen to Nyong’o’s brimming interwatch on the “What Now? With Trevor Noah” podcast here.
