Lupita Nyong’o detailed the heartbreaking journey of losing her Kenyon accent over the course of her acting career
Lupita Nyong’o described the pain she went through losing her Kenyan accent early in her acting career.
'I went to drama school because I didn't want to just be an instinctive actor,” she said. “I wanted to understand my instrument. I wanted to know what I was good at, what I was not good at, and work on the things that I wasn't good at. And one of the things I wasn't good at was accents.” 'I didn't know how to sound any other way than myself,' she said of the program. 'That was the first permission that I gave myself. But it was full of heartbreak and grief, just grief.'
“You know, I didn't feel like myself and I cried many nights to sleep many, many nights,” she continued. Nyong’o added that there were times she “wanted to give up,” but she had set a “goal” for herself and was determined to “succeed in an American market as an actor.”
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