Lupita Nyong'o

[Benn98]

In all fairness, I first heard of her a year ago. So personally I'd say her HW fame started with TYAS. At least on a global scale. It doesn't mean that we discredit her prior successes, of course.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

now if only we could convince her to wear something like that to an event/awards show!

 

[Modelspiceuk]

From Paris Match

 

[kokobombon]

It's impossible for her to take a bad picture

 

[kissmesweet]

The photo from Paris Match is just spectacular.

 

[Aoedele]

She's radiant and that smile, gorgeous.

 

[Aby]

Paris Match should have put her on the cover!!

 

[Modelspiceuk]

Paris Match should have put her on the cover!!

Just give it some time. These are baby steps, but she'll grace a cover soon

I'm more annoyed at the caption title: Lupita Nyong'o, Black Sun....

I mean, couldn't they at least choose another more appropriate title, such as Rising Star in Holllywood

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ It is a little odd, but she certainly does glow like the sun ...

 

[Aby]

Just give it some time. These are baby steps, but she'll grace a cover soon

I'm more annoyed at the caption title: Lupita Nyong'o, Black Sun....

I mean, couldn't they at least choose another more appropriate title, such as Rising Star in Holllywood

Yeah a reminder in case someone hadn't noticed her skin color... Just relieved they didn't go for yet another racist and obviously lame animal -gazelle or panther- comparison.

 

[Yohji]

UK Harper's Bazaar May 2015 : Lupita Nyong'o by Alexi Lubomirski ​

sources: lupitanyongo's instagram, vogue28

 

[Aby]

Oh that cover HB! Lupita's indeed the new face of beauty.

 

[Modelspiceuk]

Gorgeous for HB cover. Her maxi dress for the Maisha Film Foundation Fundraising event in Uganda is by Ugandan Label Kwesh

 

[Aoedele]

Gorgeous cover.

 

[SallyAlbright]

I think that's her best cover yet! Absolutely beautiful.

 

[Aoedele]

It almost looks like a painting, is it?

 

[Benn98]

Even in an everyday pic she looks like a goddess. I didn't know Mira was attached to that project, let's hope it actually reaches completion. She can be a very impetuous director.

 

[liaa]

Beautiful cover. She looks amazing.

 

[Yohji]

ugandandiasporanews.com

Lupita Nyong’o is Bazaar’s May cover star

More than a beautiful face: we meet the Oscar-winning actress
Between photographs in a King’s Cross warehouse, Lupita Nyong’o dances. Nothing showy, just a shuffle of her hips or a head-nod to the beat of the music in the background. She’s surrounded by people – a circus of agents and stylists and Lancôme representatives (she’s the brand’s new ambassador) all there for her, but she doesn’t dance for them. It’s the kind of dancing you might do while you’re drying your hair, or on hold on the phone; moves only you can see. But seriously, this woman can dance. At one point, she body-pops like a pro, and makes herself laugh with a full-on strut. Mostly, though, she dances in a kind of dream, eyes half-closed, like it’s the most private thing in the world.

‘There was a time when I was afraid to dance,’ says Nyong’o. The shoot’s over, and we’re in an empty café on the top floor of the building. It’s dusk and you can see all of London, to the Shard and beyond, the lights coming on across the city. She has changed out of a full-throttle orange dress and into a black sweater and trousers, as though someone has turned down the volume. Her voice is low; the music’s off; the circus has packed up and moved on. ‘My older sister would dance with abandon,’ she continues. ‘She would do it to entertain. I was so mortified at the thought of wiggling my body in any direction. And I wrestled with myself, because I didn’t want to be so self-conscious. I wanted to be able to enjoy music and not care that I looked cute. I don’t know when something switched in my head, but I’m so glad it did, because I feel like dancing, and being able to enjoy one’s body for oneself is such a precious, precious thing. For yourself, you know?’ She pauses. ‘If this had happened to me at a time when I couldn’t dance – ha – my God, I think I would be way more of a wreck.’

‘This’ is the last two years, one of those trajectories that make you feel woozy with vertigo and that make no sense in any world beyond Hollywood. Nyong’o’s rise has been so fast and so extreme that she’s still trying to figure what on earth happened. In 2012, she was still an acting student at Yale School of Drama. The same year, an audition tape made its way to Steve McQueen, who was looking for an actress for the part of Patsey in his film 12 Years a Slave. Nyong’o got the call, got the part, got the Oscar (for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role). It was her first feature film, still the only film she has released. There had been a relentless pre-Oscars campaign in which she appeared in a procession of gowns that seemed to shout from the red carpet: ‘This woman is going to be huge.’ By the time she was standing outside the Dolby Theatre on Oscar night wearing powder-blue Prada, the world was on first-name terms with Lupita. ‘You know, I thought it would come to an end after the Oscars.’ She means the frenzy. ‘I thought the Oscars would come and go and then all of a sudden everything would be back to normal and I’d be back in my apartment.’

Read the full interview with Lupita in the May issue of Harper's Bazaar, out now.

harpersbazaar.co.uk

 

[t-rex]

While her magazine editorial career has flown off the charts, her career, surprisingly, has not since her Oscar win for 12 years. I know it's been just a year - but of the three films she has signed for since then, only one of them she actually appears in, and even that is a supporting role (Queen of Katwe.) The Jungle Book is voice-only and the rumor for Star Wars is that she is also merely a voice or motion-capture. I expected bigger things but I was naïve perhaps - Hollywood isn't ready.