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Lupita Nyong’o Admitted She Spent Several Nights Crying Herself To Sleep After Losing Her Kenyan Accent Early In Her Acting Career
“I did all that work just for someone to tell me, ‘Uh uh, now go and sound like yourself.’ That was another betrayal... And when I tried to return to my accent, I couldn’t find it in my mouth.”
She eventually returned to Mexico to learn Spanish and then to the US to complete the master’s acting program at the Yale School of Drama. “I made this pact with myself that I would learn how to sound American in a way that would guarantee me a career in acting,” she said on her Mind Your Own podcast. Making those new sounds in a context that wasn’t the classroom felt like betrayal,” she shared.
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