Upon A Star
GLAMOUR South Africa|November 2019
The Black Panther and Us actor has spun a dynamic career on her own terms – and in rapid fashion. Good thing the sky’s the limit.
Kimberly Drew
Upon A Star

LUPITA NYONG’O glides into the restaurant at our appointed time, the picture of cool in a blue charmeuse jumpsuit with a camel-toned rain jacket draped over her arm. If diners are aware a star is among us, they don’t betray it. After briefly casting about for a different table, then deciding the one we’ve got will do, she jumps directly, wholeheartedly, into the interview, clothes first.

“The gesture of my style is definitely my mom. I always thought she was very elegant, and she was always present with the way she put herself together without being pressured,” says Lupita, citing her mother’s ritual home manicure every Sunday night while the family watched TV together. But she also looked up to her aunt, Amondi, her mother’s sister, whose style tacked in the opposite direction: black leather jackets, a Mohawk at one point, even the motorcycle to complete the look. “I kind of oscillated between the two. I find I love the elegant, the classic, the simple, but I also like the outrageous and the quirky and the almost accidental.” Lupita could almost be describing her career, except for the accidental part. The year started with the premiere of Little Monsters, a comedic zombie flick, went right into the smash success of Jordan Peele’s horror Us, in which she plays heroine Adelaide Wilson and her demonic doppelgänger Red, and will close out after she reprises her role as CGI alien Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

この記事は GLAMOUR South Africa の November 2019 版に掲載されています。

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この記事は GLAMOUR South Africa の November 2019 版に掲載されています。

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