Lupita Nyong'o Compares Award Season To Being In A 'War Zone'

June 23rd, 2014, 07:50 pm

Lupita Nyong'o Compares Award Season To Being In A 'War Zone'

Lupita Nyong’o experienced a life-changing award season this year, but for Lupita, the whole red carpet experience was a bit overwhelming for her. In fact, she felt like she was in a war zone at times.

In a new interview with US Vogue magazine, the actress was asked about her time on the red carpet.

''Everyone said, 'Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!'” she explained. “I didn't really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season."

It seems that award season was so intense that she felt like she was in a war zone. Walking the red carpet was especially overwhelming for her.

“'The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it,” she explained.

It wasn’t only on the red carpet that her life changed. She was also now being recognized everywhere she went.

''It just feels like the entertainment industry exploded into my life,” she revealed. “People who seemed so distant all of a sudden were right in front of me and recognizing me - before I recognized them!”

Lupita Nyong’o won an Academy Award for her role in 12 Years A Slave. Her next major project will be starring in Star Wars VII.

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Tagged: black celebrities, lupita nyong'o, red carpet and event

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Lmfao

LOL! Fuckin Destin though.

CRYING

lmao

HOWLING

this reminds me of that jamie foxx gif lmao, this kid is hilarious

I think everyone's still stuck in that Gary Oldman post.

I didnt even go in there bc I alr knew

lol same. I paused, looked at the number of comments, and was just like nope. Not on a Monday.

what what about?

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Lol at people's faux outrage to this statement
Just be honest, you're tired of people being nice to a black girl

I honestly feel like a lot of people faked liking her in the beginning because they thought they'd be called racist if they didn't lol.

true

Half the people who "liked" her didn't really "like her.

She was their token black girl to go crazy over, lbh.

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Lol that's what this post is really about tbh. People are frothing at the mouth for the chance to dismiss this girl.

There's faux outrage for everything any celeb does on ontd

Yeah, like ONTD doesn't give all female celebs shit for every little misstep.

People, especially here, have always gotten mad at celebs who compare the industry to a war zone (there have been a couple others).

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Actors and the 'hard lives' they think they live, well all celebs tbh.

This quote is giving me Natalie vibes. Apology in 3, 2, 1...

Just waiting for an Ontd war survivor to drag her for being insensitive

lmaooooooo

noooooo lmao

and so it begins.

I thought saying something is a 'war zone' was a pretty common comparison. Are people really gonna get mad at that?

It's only a common comparison to other violent situations, like places with lots of gang violence.

Privileged celebrities do commonly use war and rape to complain about their rich people problems. It's not a common comparison to trivial things otherwise.

War is used as a metaphor by lots of people for all sorts of first-world conflicts.
See class warfare, culture wars, mommy wars, war on christmas, etc.

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I didn't even mind her calling it a war zone but when she went on to talk about how she has to "stand there and take it" and how she can't "fly or flight" I was rolling my eyes.