9 hours ago · And despite her subsequent Oscar win, 12 Years a Slave’s breakout star Lupita Nyong’o did a self-tape that initially went ignored. It was a subsequent audition, with Maisler coldly reading opposite her, that finally made Steve McQueen pay attention (“It was emotional,” she remembers).
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Tavia Nyong'o is a critic and scholar of art and performance. He is William Lampson professor of African American studies, American studies and theater and performance studies at Yale University where he teaches courses on black diaspora performance, cultural studies, and critical and aesthetic theory. Wikipedia
