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Lupita Nyong’o: Le soleil noir de Hollywood

Lupita Nyong’o, photographed by Matias Indjic during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival for Madame Figaro, June 2015.

A small galaxy’s worth of tracking dots affixed to Lupita Nyong’o’s face allowed artists at Industrial Light & Magic to transform her into the C.G.I. character Maz Kanata. And while we may not know which side of the Resistance  […] Lupita Nyong’o’s C.G.I. character, Maz Kanata, is on, we do know […] that she’s a pirate. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Lupita Nyong’o  speaks at the Massachusetts Conference for Women (x)

Lupita Nyong’o attends the opening ceremony of the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France - May 13, 2015.

Lupita Nyong’o for New York Magazine, 2014

On the responsibility that comes with her skin color: “I don’t feel like the responsibility I feel comes from any place other than my gut. I feel a responsibility to speak about certain things because I wish someone had spoken about them for me. I know I’m in a unique position where lots of people all over the world are seeing me and connecting with me, and perhaps because of my demographic and how limited representation is for my demographic, I do feel not a responsibility but an impetus to speak. It’s an impetus. It’s 2015, man. We could all use some diversity. It can get tedious to have to explain that I speak English because Kenyans speak English.” - Harper’s Bazaar UK, May 2015

Lupita Nyong’o for Lucky Magazine | March 2015

Lupita Nyong’o attends the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 25, 2015 in Los Angeles, California

Get to Know Me Meme: [2/10] Celebrity Crushes: Lupita Nyong’o I’ve heard people talk about images in popular culture changing, and that makes me feel great, because it means that the little girl I was, once upon a time, has an image to instill in her that she is beautiful, that she is worthy, that she can… Until I saw people who looked like me, doing the things I wanted to, I wasn’t so sure it was a possibility. Seeing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah in The Colour Purple, it dawned on me: ‘Oh, I could be an actress!’ We plant the seed of possibility.

"It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience."

Lupita Nyong’o for Lucky Magazine | March 2015

Lupita Nyong’o by Tom Munro for Glamour US | December 2014

Lupita Nyong’o speaks at the Massachusetts Conference for Women (x)