Lupita Nyong’o on being approached for more slave roles post Oscar win

LOS ANGELES: Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, who first broke out with her Academy Award-winning performance in 12 Years a Slave, recalled how her post-Oscars journey did not bring about an array of offers, but rather got roles that offered more of the same.

“It really did set the paces for everything I’ve done since. But you know what’s interesting is that, after I won that Academy Award, you’d think, ‘Oh, I’m gonna get lead roles here and there.’ Instead, it was), ‘Oh, Lupita, we’d like you to play another movie where you’re a slave, but this time you’re on a slave ship’,” Nyong’o said.

“Those are the kind of offers I was getting in the months after winning my Academy Award,” she told Grammy-winning musician Angélique Kidjo on CNN Inside Africa interview, reports deadline.com.

The actress called it “a very tender time,” saying she had to ignore headlines that extrapolated on her Hollywood trajectory.