Lupita Nyong’o overwhelm with slave roles

Lupita Nyong’o was shortlisted for offers to play slaves after winning the Oscar.

The 42-year-old star won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance at Patsey in 2013. 12 years slave And while she hoped her success would lead to major league roles, she was surprised that she continued to get similar roles.

He talks about it CNN in AfricaShe said: “It’s really put a damper on everything I’ve done since.”

“But you know what’s interesting about that, after I won this Academy Award, you’d think, ‘Oh, I’d get leading roles here and there,'” she revealed.

-Ga / -da Dark skin The actress added, ” [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. ‘These are the kinds of offers I received months after I won my Academy Award.”

Lupita also mentioned that it was a “very delicate time” and she had to ignore the coverage of thellywood.

She said: “There were managers about: ‘Is this the beginning and the end of black women in Black Africa?’ I had to be myself for all that pontification, at the end of the day, I’m not a visionary; I am a serious person. “

Lupita Nyong’o – whose parents are Kenyan – is ready to be less if it means not “still thinking about the stereotypes” of African people.

“I would like to be a man who is happy to change the fraction of what it means, if that means to work in one job that I do not expect that I do not expect from people from that continent,” it makes me that, “