Lupita Nyong’o Gets Offered Parts With ‘A Lot Of Darkness And Drama’

Lupita Nyong’o gets offered parts with “a lot” of “darkness and drama”. The 41-year-old’s breakout role was playing raped, beaten and abused Patsey in Sir Steve McQueen’s plantation-era ‘12 Years a Slave’, and she says ever since then she’s been flooded with movie offers to play bleak roles – even though she wants to venture into comedy. Lupita, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her work in 2013’s ’12 Years’ told People: “I don’t get comedic roles offered to me.

Ever. I’m known for dramatic roles, so I tend to get that kind of role. Lots of depth, darkness.

“I love depth. I’m not saying I don’t want depth. But darkness and drama, I get that a lot.

“I am always trying to choose roles that I haven’t played before, roles that will stretch me. “I think comedy is very scary. It’s very hard to achieve, and I want to try my hand at it more.

” After landing her Oscar, Lupita’s next film role was a part in Liam Neeson’s 2014 action film ‘Non-Stop’, followed by a motion-capture part in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and a voice performance in 2016’s ‘Jungle Book’. Lupita added the CGI ‘Star Wars’ role may have been “surprising” to some of her fans and her industry colleagues. But she said: “I’d been given the privilege of this award (the Oscar) – it comes with having some semblance of choice.

“I was in a place where I was financially stable enough that I could choose. So I decided to exercise t.