“The CGI seemed to be what Lupita struggled with, perhaps because it meant she felt less of a connection to the character”, a source said. In 2014, Nyong’o was even deemed by People magazine as the most attractive woman in the world while Glamour magazine awarded her as “Woman of the Year”.
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Star Wars… Lupita Nyong’o attends a Star Wars event. Lupita was quick to correct him. It’s basically… you’re doing the work you do anyway as an actor, but you’re not in costume and you’re not in hair and makeup and you’re in “dots” instead.
Being with lovely and famous Hollywood stars is something she is still getting used to especially since Lupita did not see herself as someone attractive.
Lupita Nyong’o has won over 20 awards, including a Golden Globe and Oscars for Best Supporting Actress in “12 Years a Slave”.
“I did a film after Star Wars and Jungle Book…”
Rumours suggested Lupita’s part in the film had been reduced during the editing process, but director J.J. Abrams is adamant the story is not true, and he has lavished praise on the actress for her “spectacular” performance. And in a sense I can, by making very deliberate choices about what I do and when and how, and with whom’. “But it’s like being onstage: You never stop getting butterflies”.
The cuts have been attributed to problems with Nyongo’s acting in CGI scenes.
Of course, Noah made one last attempt to get some plot-related details out of the new Maz Kanata.
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It’s hard to discern where the rumours may have stemmed from – with tabloids suggesting that her role had been “massively cut in the finished edit” – since the film has never been screened, with an insider adding: “No one, including Lupita, has seen it”.
