A Best Supporting Actress Oscar via 12 YEARS A SLAVE launched her onto the world stage and her casting in STAR WARS EPISODE VII cemented her rising star status. For her next project, Lupita Nyong’o will take a dual acting/producing role in AMERICANAH, based on the 2013 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half Of A Yellow Sun). The story concerns a Nigerian woman who goes to the US to attend university, only for her and her lover to be separated by the American immigration system.
Years later they are reunited in Nigeria but their lives have taken very different paths. Examining issues of race and identity, the project is being overseen by Brad Pitt’s Plan B, so a reunion of sorts for the actress with her 12 YEARS producers. Nyong’o’s statement reads:
Page after page I was struck by (protagonists) Ifemelu and Obinze’s stories, whose experiences as African immigrants are so specific and also so imminently relatable… It is a thrilling challenge to tell a truly international story so full of love, humour and heart.
You don’t get a lot of young performers stepping up to the plate on the production side so early in their careers and the weighty subject matter combined with Nyong’o’s star power should make this a highly rewarding adaptation.
Source: BBC
Steve is a journalist and comedian who enjoys American movies of the 70s, Amicus horror compendiums, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Naomi Watts and sitting down. His short fiction has been published as part of the Iris Wildthyme range from Obverse Books.
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