'Serengeti': How Lupita Nyong'o Set Out to "Diversify" the Docuseries Genre
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hollywoodreporter.comDespite growing up in Kenya, with a vibrant natural world "in our backyard," Lupita Nyong'o says she learned plenty after she signed on to narrate the six-part Discovery Channel documentary Serengeti.
Produced and directed by nature doc veteran John Downer and American Idol creator Simon Fuller, Serengeti chronicles daily life on the African plains, achieving a sense of intimacy with the natural world by following the film's animal subjects for more than a year.
A passionate animal rights activist who was honored in 2019 by the global conservation organization WildAid for her efforts to protect wild African elephants, Nyong'o says there are lessons to be learned just by "observing and listening" to nature.
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