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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Lupita Nyong'o

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

News, Celebrity, Politics, Technology, Pop Culture, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Tv, Interview, Music, Broadway, Movies

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In Jordan Peele’s highly-anticipated new horror film “Us,” Lupita Nyong’o plays both the hero and the monster. It’s a new genre for the 36-year-old actress who starred in last year’s cultural phenomenon “Black Panther” and won an Academy Award in 2014 for her performance in “12 Years a Slave.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to Nyong’o about her journey from Kenya to Yale Drama School to the Oscars stage, and the whirlwind 6 years she’s had since then.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:05.4

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along this week.

0:08.7

Alright, has anybody seen the movie Us yet?

0:11.3

The New Jordan Keel movie has followed up to get out.

0:14.4

Woo!

0:15.4

Man, it is nuts.

0:16.9

And the star is Lupita Nihongo.

0:19.0

Of course, the Academy Award-winning actress.

0:21.5

You're about to hear some deep stuff.

0:24.1

A good conversation with her.

0:25.8

This movie I had just seen it before I sat down with her.

0:29.0

I watched it alone in my apartment, which it turns out was a mistake.

0:33.1

And then I had to sit down across from her after seeing her.

0:35.7

If you've seen the movie, you know, exactly what I'm talking about.

0:38.4

Looking into those eyes, I have to say she made it easy very quickly.

0:41.6

She was Lupita Nihongo and not red, the character in that movie.

0:45.8

It is the movie everybody's talking about right now.

0:48.0

If you saw Get Out, you realized that he took horror films to a different place.

0:52.4

Yes, they were scary, but they're also great movies that said something about our culture.

0:56.8

He does it again with this one in Us.

0:59.0

The cast, great movie.

1:01.3

Lupita plays both the hero and the monster without getting it too deep into it in case

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