“I didn’t feel like myself,” the “Us” star said.
“I went to drama school because I didn’t want to just be an instinctive actor.
I wanted to understand my instrument.
Lupita Nyong’o.Amy Sussman/WireImage
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.
“That was the first permission that I gave myself.
Lupita Nyong’o in ‘A Quiet Place: Day One.'.Paramount Pictures
But it was full of heartbreak and grief, just grief.”
The pain came from feeling like someone else.
Making those new sounds in a context that wasn’t the classroom felt like betrayal," she said.
