Lupita Nyong’o Recalled Crying Herself To Sleep After Training Herself To Lose Her Kenyan Accent Because She Was Determined To “Succeed In An American Market”

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“The process of deciding, OK, I’m going to start working on my American accent, and I’m not going to allow myself to sound Kenyan, so I’m monitoring and really trying to understand my mouth in a technical way to make these new sounds. Making those new sounds in a context that wasn’t the classroom felt like betrayal,” she shared.

“You know, I didn’t feel like myself, and I cried many nights to sleep many, many nights,” she said.

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