Lupita Nyong’o talks about launching her campaign Make Fibroids Count to help advocate for women and being directed by Christopher Nolan while playing two characters in The Odyssey before playing a Greek mythology game.
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Lupita Nyong’o Co-Directed with Christopher Nolan for Her Scenes in The Odyssey (Extended)
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Jimmy making me feel like I could be a host by the way he DMs a game XD
My favorite Nakia ❤❤❤
She's so almondy. LOL! And a Pisces queen too?! I knew I shoulda auditioned for a part in Black Panther! LOL!! 🤣🤣😂😂
Elon Musk and Matt Walsh….eat your hearts out!
So glad the film is killing that the box office !
Not only gorgeous and talented but so logical! 😍
Lupita is the new Whoopi Goldberg of our times since I saw her performance in 12 Years of a Slave which made her earn the Oscar for best supporting actress, so I am glad Nolan cast her for his new movie in spite of the criticisms. Actually, I liked The Odyssey whose making of must have been an ODYSSEY for Christopher Nolan.
Despite being African she sounds so American.
Please clap.
People don’t realize that the real Bronze Age Troy was called Wilusa by the people in the region and the inhabitants weren’t white. They were most likely Luwain 😂. I have zero issue with Helen being played by a person of color, but realize Helen was from Sparta so she wouldn’t have been black, but that’s ok. Get over it ya’ll 😂
She's like a young Cicely Tyson and Dianne Carroll rolled into one. Absolutely stunning!
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Wait — THIS is the woman racists said wasn't beautiful enough to be Helen? Hoooooooooly shiiiiiiiit you're telling on yourselves boys.
People, what are you talking about? Her great-grandfather ate people during the famine in Kenya in 1896. At that time, cannibalism was widespread in that region, and her Luo tribe was involved!
I would launch 5000 ships for her, racists can stay mad!
PR of hers in the coments are trying hard.
YAWN
Don’t get me wrong Lupita is great love her but I don’t think the casting got her right. Helen of Troy supposed to be the most beautiful women of all and historical text describes her to be light golden hair and this is Greek mythology so she’s Greek. I think Hollywood is forcing diversity in casting doesn’t match the historical context of the film. Like if it was reverse where the character is supposed to be black and they casted someone white, there would have been more backlash.
if black is beautiful i just pooped a masterpiece
People, you're crazy. It's as scary as a nuclear war.
Страшная как атомная война.
what a failure this movie … woke BS
Lupita thank you so much for speaking on womens health issues. Uterine Fibroids are the worst. I ultimately had to get a hysterectomy. I pray my daughters don't have to deal with the discomfort of having fibroids
Dear God, I am so in love with her 🧎🏿♀️➡️🧎🏿♀️➡️😭
For someone who has been given the right to keep her clitoris by white people, she is very ungrateful towards white people!
In case you don't know, in her African culture, her clitoris would have been cut off🤷
She just gave up in that alien (quiet) movie. Didn't even give the aliens a chance. 😂
Lupita is beautiful.
Love her!❤😊
Beautiful woman
Wow, she's stunning!
only ship she should be on is a slave ship!
beautiful Mexican name you have
I am Italian and I love American cinema. Woke culture is ruining great European classics. WE ARE WHITE, OUR ANCESTORS WERE WHITE—THEY WERE NOT BLACK. YOU IN AMERICA CLEARLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BLACK PEOPLE; WE ITALIANS AND EUROPEANS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE ISSUES YOU HAVE WITH MINORITIES OR HOW YOU WANT TO COMPENSATE THEM.
To everyone who doesn't think Lupita is a beautiful woman:
(Insert eye chart here)
Pathetic Helen of troy was not African sad world we live in
I can’t imagine being this overly educated yet completely moronic
I don't understand all the racist bullshit Lupita is getting, she's gorgeous and a incredible actress
Helen of Detroit 😂
She is soo Greek I love it 😹
Okay so, let's take for example, Nambalist. The Ambo folklore (african, for those who don't know) tells that his mother laid a series of eggs. After destroying the first few, a talking tree stump warned her to save the next one. She placed it in a storage basket, and after several days, it cracked open to reveal Nambalisita. So by the same logic, we could cast a white actor as Nambalist the same way they cast a black actress for Helen, also born from an egg… Right? And that surely would be okay for everyone….
Lupita is really and truly our pride and joy!🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💅🏿🥂🍾💕✨💕
She didn't co-direct shit
A change of diet does help with fibroids. Less animals products and more fruits, vegetables, and grains.
Her role was very short tho. She played it well.
Lupita co-directing with the greatest director of all time?! 🤭 No disrespect to her but she should know her place. She's just a B-list actress while Chris Nolan is a larger-than-life director.
Helen of DeTROYt
Could launch 10 ships.