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Lupita Nyong’o Calls Press Junkets A “Torture Technique”
The actress, who won an Oscar for her very first film performance, says there are some things for which drama school did not prepare her.
The actress had just graduated from the Yale School of Drama and now admits she was totally unprepared for overnight fame. “We were prepared to be extras and little guest stars on TV shows before we would have our chance at any substantial role in the thing that we love to do,” Nyong’o tells Glamour magazine of school. Specifically, Nyong’o calls press junkets a “torture technique.” She describes their tedium thusly: “Different people are being ferried in” to ask the exact same questions.
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