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Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/a><\/strong>, one of the most exciting actors right now, opened up about her journey after she won an Oscar for her defining role in 12 Years a Slave<\/a><\/strong>. The acclaimed actress recently revealed that what followed were offers that were nowhere close to what she was expecting.<\/p>\n Despite winning an Oscar and gaining immense critical acclaim for her performance in her first film, the Black Panther<\/a> star received offers for stereotypical roles in the industry, shedding light on the existing bias.<\/p>\n Lupita Nyong\u2019o discussed the same with Grammy-winning musician Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo in a recent celebrity.land Inside Africa interview<\/a>. \u201cIt really did set the paces for everything I\u2019ve done since,\u201d she said about her role in 12 Years a Slave. \u201cBut you know what\u2019s interesting is that, after I won that Academy Award, you\u2019d think, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m gonna get lead roles here and there.\u2019 [Instead, it was], \u2018Oh, Lupita, we\u2019d like you to play another movie where you\u2019re a slave, but this time you\u2019re on a slave ship.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Nyong\u2019o added, \u201cThose are the kind of offers I was getting in the months after winning my Academy Award.\u201d The Us<\/a> actress also called this a \u201ctender time\u201d as the media extrapolated on her Hollywood trajectory. She stated, \u201cThere were think pieces about: \u2018Is this the beginning and end of this dark-skinned Black African woman\u2019s career?\u2019 I had to deafen myself to all those pontificators because, at the end of the day, I\u2019m not a theory; I\u2019m an actual person.\u201d<\/p>\n Moreover, Lupita Nyong\u2019o divulged how her goal was to broaden the scope of African storytelling, but it always came attached with stereotypes. \u201cI like to be a joyful warrior for changing the paradigms of what it means to be African, and if that means that I work one job less a year to ensure that I\u2019m not perpetuating the stereotypes that are expected of people from my continent, then let me do that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the 42-year-old actress will soon appear in Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Sourav Chakraborty on ComingSoon.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Black Panther\u2019s Lupita Nyong\u2019o Reflects on Post-Oscar Typecasting<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lupita Nyong\u2019o, one of the most exciting actors right now, opened up about her journey after she won an Oscar for her defining role in 12 Years a Slave. 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