What has Lupita Nyong’o said about Us?

In a new interview with marie claire US, Lupita Nyong’o has spoken how she fought tooth and nail for the role of Adelaide Wilson in Us.

“‘I will hold the boom for you,’” Nyong’o recalled telling Peele. “‘I will drag cable. I’ll do it all and anything.’ I knew I had to work with him. In that meeting, he asked me ‘What is your process as an actress? What do you need from a director?’ And I just started to cry. He was like, ‘What happened?’ And I was like, ‘I’ve just never been asked that.’ I could just tell in that question was a man who understand what it meant to be an actor, what is the vulnerability, and the support that is most fruitful to get the most out of a creative, artistic encounter. And that was just, ‘Oh my God, why can’t he direct every movie I do?’”

Nyong’o wanted to work with Peele after seeing Get Out five times in cinemas. “I kept going back as though I didn’t have anything else to do,” Nyong’o said. “I couldn’t get enough of that movie.”

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