Lupita Nyong’o Says She’s Able to Be in a Rom-Com (Unique)

Lupita Nyong’o has a request for Hollywood casting administrators.

On Friday, June 14, Paramount Photos and Hollywood Confidential hosted an occasion celebrating the Oscar-winning actress, 41, for her years of labor within the movie and TV industries on the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles.

Nyong’o’s movie and TV résumé is expansive — she took dwelling a Greatest Supporting Actress Academy Award in 2014 for her work in 12 Years a Slave, portrayed a spy and romantic curiosity to Chadwick Boseman in Black Panther and starred in horror motion pictures together with Jordan Peele’s thriller Us — however there’s one style she actually desires to deal with subsequent, she informed PEOPLE.

“Please inform all people I am searching for the rom-com,” she introduced. “I’m right here. I am taking calls. Pay attention, if I must audition, I am going to do it. I am dying to do a comedy. Dying to do a comedy.”

The Emmy winner has began taking issues into her personal palms, posting foolish movies of herself, her cat and extra to indicate off her lighthearted facet.

“I am attempting to inform these executives that I am humorous and that I may be lighthearted and light-footed,” Nyong’o added. “However I do have extra dramatic roles within the can than mild ones, so somebody’s simply bought to take an opportunity with me. So contemplate this my open utility.”

Persevering with her horror streak for now, Nyong’o is starring within the Quiet Place prequel A Quiet Place: Day One. She had some variety phrases about simply how imaginative the franchise’s creator, John Kraskinski, is.

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“I used to be very honored to get provided this function as a result of I believe it’s a very revolutionary world that John Krasinski created,” she stated of The Workplace alum, who starred in and directed the primary Quiet Place film in 2018. “And it’s a enjoyable world. It is a very particular world. It is a tense world.”

Nyong’o likened the world of A Quiet Place, with all of its alien invasions and chase sequences, to video games she used to play as a child.

“Like the ground is lava. You decide to that context and also you go for it,” she defined to PEOPLE. “And also you’re asking adults to do that. Think about a world the place it’s important to keep quiet to outlive. It is thrilling to me to be in that sort of hyper-imaginative world.”

Moreover, the actress had excessive reward for her costar, Stranger Issues alum Joseph Quinn.

“Doing [the movie] with somebody like Joe was superior,” she stated, recalling watching Quinn tackle the function of fan-favorite D&D participant Eddie Munson. “I assumed he was extraordinarily memorable and shifting as an actor, and I used to be very keen to satisfy him and questioning what he could be like in particular person. And what I found is that he is a really hardworking actor and an excessive gentleman, and he is a crew participant.”

“We in a short time bought right into a rhythm working collectively, and it was enjoyable. It was at all times shocking. I simply liked it. It was an exquisite, great match relating to our chemistry,” she added of the actor.

A Quiet Place: Day One differs fairly a bit from the unique story of the primary movie. Reasonably than happening on a farm, Day One follows Nyong’o’s character by way of the alien invasion because it occurred within the hustle and bustle of New York Metropolis.

“I believe that this film is an homage to New York,” Nyong’o informed PEOPLE, including that it is the sort of film she hopes will make audiences wish to watch it in theaters. “It’s a reminder of how superb and priceless it’s to come back collectively to observe a film.”

“That cinematic expertise — you possibly can’t commerce it,” she added. “Like, sure, okay, it is nice, the convenience of placing on a film at dwelling, however this film is made for that immersive cinematic expertise, and there is nothing as cool and satisfying as having a cathartic expertise in a gaggle setting.”

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