Lupita Nyong’o on Cementing Her Scream Queen Status with ‘A Quiet Place Day One’ and the Advice She Gave Joseph Quinn About Joining the MCU
variety.comLexi Carson The (silent) Scream Queen has emerged. Following Lupita Nyong’o’s role as a tethered clone with a shaky voice in Jordan Peele’s 2018 film “Us,” the Academy Award-winning actor now gets completely silent for “A Quiet Place Day One,” set in a world where if you make noise, you’ll suffer a brutal death by aliens. “This genre helps us exercise emotions that we are otherwise running away from a lot of the time, we don’t get permission to be openly scared in our real life,” Nyong’o told Variety at the film’s premiere in New York City on Wednesday night. “I found myself coming [back] again and again to horror because of the roles that have been offered to me there.
There is a heightened nature to horror that makes for a really interesting character to explore.” “A Quiet Place: Day One” takes place in New York City — ironically one of the loudest cities in the world.
It’s the third movie in the franchise and a prequel to John Krasinski‘s “A Quiet Place” and “A Quiet Place Part II,” following Nyongo’s character Samira on the first day of the deadly alien invasion.
Krasinski was on hand for the premiere at AMC Lincoln Square, posing for photographers alongside Nyong’o, her co-stars Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou and Alex Wolff, and filmmaker Michael Sarnoski (“Pig”) to whom he handed over the directing reins. “[Krasinski] knew that he wanted to bring a fresh voice to the universe, and he didn’t want someone to try and make it feel like the other movies.
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