16 June 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\nLupita Nyong\u2019o is dreaming of starring in a romantic comedy.<\/p>\n
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Lupita Nyong\u2019o is dreaming of starring in a romantic comedy<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old actress has made her name with a string of hard-hitting roles in films such as \u201912 Years a Slave\u2019 and \u2018Us\u2019, but is now pleading with Hollywood casting directors to put her in a light-hearted movie.<\/p>\n
She told an event hosted by Paramount Pictures and Hollywood Confidential to celebrate her work: \u201cPlease tell everybody I’m looking for the rom-com. I am here, I\u2019m taking calls. <\/p>\n
\u201cListen, if I need to audition, I\u2019ll do it. I\u2019m dying to do a comedy \u2013 dying to do a comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lupita won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2014 for her work in director Sir Steve McQueen\u2019s horrific 19th Century-set drama \u201812 Years a Slave\u2019, and has portrayed a spy and romantic interest to Chadwick Boseman in \u2018Black Panther\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nShe has even started to advertise her comedy abilities online by posting <\/p>\n
\nlight-hearted videos of herself and her cat on social media to show her playful side.<\/p>\n
\nLupita added: \u201cI\u2019m trying to tell these executives that I\u2019m funny and that I can be light-hearted and light-footed.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBut I do have more dramatic roles in the can than light ones, so someone\u2019s just got to take a chance with me. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cSo consider this my open application.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nDespite her dreams of a comedy role, the actress is currently starring in the \u2018Quiet Place\u2019 prequel \u2018A Quiet Place: Day One\u2019. <\/p>\n
\nShe said about landing the part in the horror franchise: \u201cI was very honoured to get offered this role because I think it is a very innovative world that John Krasinski created.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u2018The US Office\u2019 actor John, 43, starred in and directed the first \u2018Quiet Place\u2019 movie in 2018, and Lupita called his dark creation about alien monsters who terrorise humanity by eating them every time they hear them move or make a sound \u201ca fun world\u201d. <\/p>\n
\nShe added: \u201cIt\u2019s a very specific world. It\u2019s a tense world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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