Lupita Nyong'o's body "was ravaging itself" when she first found fame. The 39-year-old star won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her breakout role in 2013's '12 Years A Slave' but she admitted she was constantly "mitigating [her] panic" and her inner turmoil "cost" her "physically" in many ways.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: “I was mitigating my panic at all times because extreme failure and extreme success, the body doesn’t know the difference. “Either way, you are in distress.
I’m proud of how I weathered that particular storm, but it cost me. It cost me physically. I was extremely thin. My body was ravaging itself, and I got fibroids. ” After winning the Oscar, Lupita was advised to capitalise on her success but credits Dame Emma Thompson with having "saved her life" by telling her to continue to stick to her own instincts.
She recalled: “I got told a lot, not just by my team but by other actors that I would meet, ‘You’ve got to strike now. ’ ” Explaining how she'd met Emma on the awards circuit and called her when she was in London to film 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', she continued: “She invited me over, and I went to dinner with her, and she totally demystified all of that. “She did save my life.
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