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The public can’t get enough of actress Lupita N’yongo. After landing on numerous magazine covers and fashion editorials over the last 3 months, her place in Hollywood history has been stamped. This month, we find he Kenyan beauty gracing New York Magazine’s Spring Fashion issue. Inside the pages, the actress opens up about family, growing up in Mexico, and her first taste of fame. Check out the excerpts below.
On why her father moved to Mexico from Kenya:
“His car was found on the ferry in the town he lived in with a pair of shoes and no sign of him. No one would look for a Kenyan in Mexico. Nyong’o was born shortly afterwards and in the Kenyan tradition of naming a child after what’s happening at the time of his or her birth, was given the name Lupita, a diminutive of Guadalupe. “Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called Lupita in Mexico.”
On learning of her Oscar nomination:
“I had a very good cry with my best friend, and then we had a dance party, just me and him.”
The advice Ralph Fiennes gave her about acting:
“He asked me what I wanted to do with my life, and I very timidly admitted that I was interested in being an actor. He sighed and said, ‘If there’s something else that you want to do, do that. Only act if you feel you can’t live without it.’ It wasn’t what I wanted to hear, but it was the thing I needed to hear.”
On her first run-in with paparazzi:
“I don’t know who they were waiting for, but they definitely chased me down,which is a startling, disturbing experience. I did not expect it. I went into flight mode.”
