Lupita Nyong’o will be voicing the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk story.
She will participate in the next installment of the movie.
Lupita voicing the giant was inspired by “the social movements of today” to dismiss preconceived notions of the Giant and present the character as “a dynamic and powerful woman.”
The film is directed by French director Mathias Chelebourg.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o is set to play a role in Trevor Noah’s film adaptation of his 2016 memoir.
Lupita will play Trevor’s mum in the memoir Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.
The actress shared the news on Knstagram where she wrote: “When I read @TrevorNoah’s “Born A Crime,” I could not put the book down. Excited to announce that I will be starring in and producing its feature film adaptation! #BornACrime.”
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Noah made a repost of the same photo. He said, ” My mom is a powerful woman who could easily be one of the beautiful soldiers in Wakanda. So it’s beyond a perfect fit that she would be portrayed on the big screen by the radiant and regal Lupita Nyong’o. I’m beyond excited.”
Trevor Noah’s autobiography has been on the bestseller list since its release. It has won the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, and also two NAACP Image Awards.
It centres on Trevor’s childhoods growing up in post-apartheid South Africa as the son of a white father and black mother.
The film adaptation is being produced by Trevor’s Ark Angel Productions. This is alongside Norman Aladjem, Derek Van Pelt and Sanaza Yamin of Mainstay Entertainment, and Lupita.
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o has revealed that she is writing a children’s book that she hopes will inspire dark skinned girls to “walk with joy in their own skin”.
Taking to social media, Lupita said she was thrilled to announce news of the book, which will hit shelves in January 2019.
“It’s called Sulwe! Sulwe is a dark-skinned girl who goes on a starry-eyed adventure, and awakens with a reimagined sense of beauty. She encounters lessons that we learn as children and spend our lives unlearning. This is a story for little ones, but no matter the age, I hope it serves as an inspiration for everyone to walk with joy in their own skin.”
Just like Sulwe, Lupita grew up with self-esteem issues over her dark skin and how people described her lighter-skinned sister differently.
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Lupita Nyongo has come out to share her own ordeal with axed Hollywood presenter Harvey Weinstein.She shared a lengthy detail of her ordeal with the Newyork Times.
And that was the last of my personal encounters with Harvey Weinstein. I share all of this now because I know now what I did not know then. I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein.
But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him. You see, I was entering into a community that Harvey Weinstein had been in, and even shaped, long before I got there.
He was one of the first people I met in the industry, and he told me, “This is the way it is.” And wherever I looked, everyone seemed to be bracing themselves and dealing with him, unchallenged. I did not know that things could change. I did not know that anybody wanted things to change. So my survival plan was to avoid Harvey and men like him at all costs, and I did not know that I had allies in this.
Fortunately for me, I have not dealt with any such incidents in the business since. And I think it is because all the projects I have been a part of have had women in positions of power, along with men who are feminists in their own right who have not abused their power. What I am most interested in now is combating the shame we go through that keeps us isolated and allows for harm to continue to be done. I wish I had known that there were women in the business I could have talked to. I wish I had known that there were ears to hear me. That justice could be served. There is clearly power in numbers. I thank the women who have spoken up and given me the strength to revisit this unfortunate moment in my past.
Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That’s why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel and you show up. Precisely because of this we must stay vigilant and ensure that the professional intimacy is not abused. I hope we are in a pivotal moment where a sisterhood — and brotherhood of allies — is being formed in our industry. I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed. That’s why we don’t speak up — for fear of suffering twice, and for fear of being labeled and characterized by our moment of powerlessness. Though we may have endured powerlessness at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, by speaking up, speaking out and speaking together, we regain that power. And we hopefully ensure that this kind of rampant predatory behavior as an accepted feature of our industry dies here and now.
Now that we are speaking, let us never shut up about this kind of thing. I speak up to make certain that this is not the kind of misconduct that deserves a second chance. I speak up to contribute to the end of the conspiracy of silence.
