SISTAH Talk: Running the Race with Faith

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WOMEN’S HISTORY TRIBUTE: OSCAR WINNING ACTRESS LUPITA NYONG’O

Lupita Nyong’o: A Star is Born Lupita Nyong'o triumphed on her Oscars debut but, says Tim Robey, the star of 2014 is poised for even greater things If you were asked to choose the most jubilant, invigorating, and universally popular few minutes of the 2014 Oscars ceremony, you couldn’t do much better than the moment after Christoph Waltz announced the winner of Best Supporting Actress. Its recipient, the 31-year-old Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o, is familiar by now for two reasons, and two alone: for her unforgettable, scalding performance in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, and her presence on the red carpet circuit all season, justifiably winning a clutch of awards for it. The performance is her debut, following an apprenticeship on the drama stages of both Nairobi and Yale. One of the most remarkable things about Nyong’o’s portrayal of Patsey is how she comes to us whole, as a fully formed, self-exposing and fearless actress, not a tentative ingenue or putty in her director’s hands. The awards clip used time and again to promote Nyong’o in 12 Years a Slave is the one with Patsey clutching a bar of soap, a symbol of defiant dignity, as she browbeats her own master for allowing her to be so misused. It precedes the film’s most brutal sequence, in which her body becomes a symbolic site in itself, and the fury and injustice of her suffering are every bit as agonising as McQueen, in trying to summon the darkest excesses of the era, needs them to be. She’s incredibly vivid at communicating both inner power, a tumultuous life force, and complete powerlessness at the same time.

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