Lupita Nyong’o Details How Taylor Swift’s Music ‘Lifted’ Her Up Amid ‘Self-Doubt’
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The Academy Award winner revealed that she personally contacted the pop star about using her song in a 2019 movie.
Lupita Nyong’o showed love to Taylor Swift as she recalled how the pop superstar’s music helped her during a difficult period in her life.
The Academy Award winner told Sean Evans, host of First We Feast’s popular YouTube series “Hot Ones,” that she got in touch with Swift after producers couldn’t clear the rights to “Shake It Off” for her 2019 film “Little Monsters.” (First We Feast and HuffPost share a parent company, Buzzfeed Inc.)
“When I was working in London on ‘Star Wars,’ I was going through a lot of self-doubt because it was the second thing I had done,” explained Nyong’o, who stars in “A Quiet Place: Day One.”
She continued, “I was getting a little depressed. My best friend came to London, and Taylor had just released ‘Shake It Off,’ and he played it for me to like get me into better spirits, and we just jumped on my bed, and we just danced and danced, and it lifted my spirits.”
Nyong’o has previously revealed how the song helped her through a “hard time professionally” at the time and, in a 2019 interview with USA Today, described the track as an “anthem” of hers.
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