Lupita Nyong'o Started Crying When She Was Asked This on 'Us' Set

Lupita Nyong’o is on the cover of Marie Claire’s March 2019 issue, on newsstands February 19.

Here’s what the 35-year-old actress had to share with the mag…

On starting to cry on the set of Us while working with Jordan Peele: “He [Peele] asked me, ‘What is your process as an actor? What do you need from a director? And I just started to cry. I was like, ‘I’ve never been asked that before.’ I could just tell in that question was a man who understood what it meant to be an actor…”

On what she treated herself to following the success of Black Panther: “I went on a 10-day silent retreat. It was a gift. I did it for my birthday.”

On the support from her father: “It makes a huge difference to have a father who champions you. My dad was a feminist before it was cool for men to be feminists – his father too in many ways.”

For more from Lupita, visit MarieClaire.com.