Actress Covers Glamour Magazine, Dishes On Brad Pitt As Mentor

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November 4, 2014 10:30 AM

Lupita Nyong'O dishes on remaking Chimamanda Adichie's 'Americanah', Brad Pitt while she covers Glamour Magazine

After the 'epic' Lupita Nyong'O win, the '12 Years A Slave' actress has raked in rave reviews apart from being the face of luxury cosmetics brand; Lancome and a muse to designers and more.

Lupita covers the December issue of Glamour magazine in all her glowing skin glory. The beautiful actress dished on how she bonded with Brad Pitt, who was the the Executive Producer for '12 Years A Slave' and on remaking Chimanda Adichie's 'Americanah'.

The actress talks, growing up in Kenya, getting a Masters in Yale amongst other things, excerpts

GLAMOUR: Over the past year you've gone from being virtually unknown to winning an Academy Award for your first major motion-picture role. How has your life changed?

LUPITA NYONG'O: This is actually a conversation I look forward to having in 10 years, when all of this is behind me and I have some real perspective on what happened—because right now I'm still adjusting. I guess I feel catapulted into a different place; I have a little whiplash.... I did have a dream to be an actress, but I didn't think about being famous. And I haven't yet figured out how to be a celebrity; that's something I'm learning, and I wish there were a course on how to handle it. I have to be aware that my kinesphere may be larger than I want it to be.

GLAMOUR: How does this change affect you day to day?

LUPITA NYONG'O: I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.

GLAMOUR: Like what?

LUPITA NYONG'O: Like being stupid in public. I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.

Check out the full interview here and peep photos from the shoot in the gallery above.

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Glamour

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