The Daily Show: Ears Edition - ICYMI - Lupita Nyong'o on Landing the Role of Trevor's Mom

Episode Date: March 6, 2019

Lupita Nyong'o explains how "Black Panther" breaks new ground in the comic book movie genre and discusses her role in the film adaptation of Trevor's memoir "Born a Crime." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's an understatement. But you'll have a lot of fun, hopefully. I think you might enjoy it if you give us your perfect blood work back from your doctor and you have full permission to tie one on, make sure you check out Two Bears One Cave. It's with me, Tom Seger and my co-host, Bert Chrysler, the Machine. My shirt's off. Please welcome Lupiza Miongo! Welcome back. Please, please, take a seed. Welcome back to the show. Thank you very much. So good to have you. And congratulations. I've read numbers that say the Black Panther is on track right now in like nine days to cross 500 million dollars. Thank you very much. And congratulations. I've read numbers that say the Black Panther is on track right now in like nine days to cross five hundred million dollars. Are you as over the moon as everyone else that's watched the movie? Yeah probably a little higher. Right. Yeah no it's amazing, amazing. What this film has been able to do, I mean, we could not have

predicted this, you know? Not only that the box office is quite handsome, but, you know, the effect it's having on the world, I mean, for the first time I've seen people paying for other people to go see the movie, and things like that. It's become this community effort, and that is incredible.

It really has connected then a level beyond just a superhero. Because when you start with the basics, this movie is an amazing film. Black Panther is an amazing Marvel film, it's a superhero film, but you dig into it and you see that this film is doing something that people people seem to have been longing for for a long time and that is showcasing different, was that something you were cognizant of when you were making the movie? Did you go like, oh, this feels different, this feels special while you were making it?

Oh, yeah, for sure. From the very start when Ryan walked me through the story, I was just like, oh my goodness, this is something that I want to see.'s fly he's badass he's intelligent he's got women all around him that are also bad ass I mean you know and you know what the women I think that's that's that's that's the interesting part of the story for me is is I won't spoil anything for anyone but the the women in this film aren't like it's not women that are on the side it's not that are subserving it's not it's like no it's like no no th like no th no th no th no th no th no th no th no th no th no th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. th. th. th. thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi's like thi's like the the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the the. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. T. th. T. T. th. thi's thi. thi's thi's thi's the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the the. the the the the the. the the the. the. the the. that are on the side, it's not women that are subservant. It's not, it's like, no, these women are kicking ass in different roles in Wakanda.

Yeah. And they're all individuals, they all, you play, I would say, the love interest and the inspiration in many ways to tachala. When you were playing this character, what were you trying to convey, what were you trying to give us when you were playing your character? Well I think what Ryan really wanted to tell a different story about love, you know? In these kinds of genres, usually the love interest is being pursued and she's one at the end and she's quite the B plot and she doesn't have an effect on like the main story and Ryan really wanted to free us of that and show us a different look at what what it means to be in a relationship and have agency in that relationship so you know it's not your

average love story you know Nakia has her life going on as well as her love and that's such a refreshing image and also to see a positive image of black relationships, you know, where, yeah, like, where the man, the man is present, the man is interesting in what the woman has to offer. The man relies on the woman, and the woman supports the man, you know, that kind of healthy relationship and where you can argue about and really tussle with real issues and help

each other achieve your goals outside of just your personal intimate stake. Right. And I think there were a lot of people who were history buffs, people who study African culture who said what they loved is Black Panther felt like it was a tip of the hats to African culture as it was intended, where people were equal even though it was a patriarchal society where people were going like, no, no, women served a different role at some point. Women had more in different cultures. When you played your character and when you have Denai Guerrero who was also amazing in this story, you, you, you, you, you, th, th, th, th, th, th, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, th, th, and, th, thi, thi, thi, and, thi, thi, thi, and, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I, and, I, I, I, I, I, and, and, I, I, I, and, the, I, the, I, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thri, thri, thri, thri, tha, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thiro who is also amazing in the story, you guys are badass. And there is a scene that touches on something I thought was a rumor but I found it as true. And that was no one had straightened hair in the movie.

No one had, you know, the hair that was like, usually a curling iron on their hair. Why was that so important? Well I think it goes it goes it goes it goes that it goes that it goes that it goes that it goes that it goes that it goes that it goes that that that that that that that that that that that that that that thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes. thoes thoes. thoes. thi. the. the. the. the. the. the. I was thi. I was their their their their. I was their. I was their. I was their. I was th. I was th. I was th. That's. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's thi. That's thi. That's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's the. It's the. I's thea. I's thea.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a. I toge.a. I the. I the.a. I the. It Is that something that's important? Well, I think it goes back to what is innately considered beautiful on the continent. You know, before the admont of the white man, black people on the continent were doing all sorts of things with their hair, right? So the idea of extensions and all that, that is not new. But the kind of shaming or rejecting of kinks and curls is new and that did come with the white man. And so in this story, Wakanda is a country that's never been colonized. They don't know the first thing about the white world. And so they embrace themselves.

They embrace themselves. They have their own sense of what is beautiful and their own sense of augmentation. And that's why you don't see any straight hair. And you feel people connecting with this movie in an authentic and also I want to say like a beautiful way because it's not it's not anti anything, it's just pro. It's enjoying being black. It's enjoying all different aspects of being black. I've noticed people in the streets becoming Wachandans. Oh yeah. Yeah, like Roy, for instance, went out to a footlocker. And then when he was done, the guy was like, have a good day, brother.

And he was like, I love it. I love it. This is like, people are doing this now in the streets. Have you noticed any of of tha tha tha tha. tha. to notice to notice this now in the streets. Have you noticed any of them? Oh my god, yeah. Yes, so yesterday I took a walk. It was such a beautiful day yesterday in New York. And so I was undercover and I took a walk to the park and I came across this group of teenagers. And they were all barking like mack. So they were doing the, there's like, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, the, th, th, th, th, the, thus, thus, thus, thus, thu, thu, th, th, th, thi, thi, it's, thu, thu, it's, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it, it was, it was, it was, it was, it, it, it, it, it was, it was, it, it was, it, it was, it, it, it's, thu, thu.. It was, thu.. It's, thus, the, the, the, like, like, like, like, like, like, thi, like, like, thi... I was like, like, like, like, th. I was such, thi. It was such, thi. It was such, the. It was such, the. It was, there's like a gorilla, like, it's a gorilla tribe that's powerful and there's like a, the epic, like, oh, ho, ho, ho, who, oh, yeah.

Exactly, and they were doing that. And I was just so amused and I was giggling to myself. And they were like, oh my God, and one of them hadn't seen the movie. And they're like, you got to see, so, so, so, so, so, the, so, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, and, and, and, and, and, the, and, the, and, and, and, the, the, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and. the, and.......................................................................................................................................... strange for you? You were in 12 years a slave. Yeah. All right? People would come up to you and be like, oh Peter, that was amazing. That was a fantastic portrayal. And now you're in what was supposed to just be a superhero movie.

But it feels like for this movie, people are asking you the deepest questions about blackness and African culture. And does the movie fix every single problem that black people face and will this err, you will this fix the urs of the past? Is a little bit overwhelming and lopsided for you? It truly is and I thought, okay, I did 12 years the slave and the kinds of questions I got with that were deep and you know I had to almost like study before I did my press tour. And then with this I was like, this is easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy, this is easy, this is easy, this is easy, this is easy, this is easy, this is easy, this is easy, this is easy, this is easy, th, thi, this, this, th, thi, thi, thi, th, and it's, and it's, and I was like, and I was, th.... this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, th. And, th. And, th. And, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. And, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. And, thi. And, this is easy. It's just a superhero movie. You know, just talk about like lifting weights or something. But then the questions are extremely deep.

And people are really relating to this on a very deep level. I feel like I need a PhD just to like answer people's question. Right. And you did, you did lift weights though. No, you did lift weights. How many months did you train to fight for? Was it? Well it was I was training for about four months before. Like hand-to-hand combat. Well, first of all, just in New York conditioning and getting my body ready for boot camp and boot camp was six

weeks before we started filming and we trained, first of all it started for we was like four hours a day and then I was like the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to toe. to to to to toe. I was toe. I was toe. I was toe. I was toe. I was toe. I was toe. I was to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to toe. toe. toe. train. train. I was train. I was train. I was train. I was train. I was train. I was training. I was training. I was training. I was training. I was training. I was training. I was training. I was training. I was training. I was training. four hours a day. And then I was like bonking. I was so tired. And then I was growing too buff. And so they had to take it down to just two hours a day. And yeah, that was very intense. There was two black panthers in this movie. Too strong, Lupeita. Yeah, I mean, I had to, because I couldn't couldn't, because I couldn't, because I couldn't, because I couldn't, because I couldnto, because I couldn't fit in my clothes after a little while. Yeah, because my arms were just like stones and I was just like, okay, this was not the idea.

I don't need to take up more seats of the screen, you know? And let's just like tone it down. I would be remiss if I let you go without speaking about news that came out yesterday. Apparently you agreed to produce and star in a film about a young South African boy and his mother. Yes. If you were saying, like, first of all, I wanted to say thank you. I mean, like, when we first spoke about the book,

as a concept, you were like, I love this book, I love the story, I love everything about it. Well, you don't, you're not telling the truth. Because the truth is, I was on the set of Black Panther, and I got the book, I pre-ordered it, got it, I read it, and I sent you an email. And I said, Trevor, please, would you do, I don't know if it will work out. And then she sent me a picker of her muscles, and I was like, oh, that's my mom. That's my mom, you can do it. I'm excited. Thank you for everything.

Black Panther is amazing. You are phenomenal. We'll see here again, $500 million. It's going to be a billion dollars. We'll see you in the sequel, we'll see in everything. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Black Panther, in theaters now. The Peter Nongo, everyone. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central Act. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show. to the Daily Show at the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more. Hey guys, this is Tom Segura.

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