Lupita Nyong'o chats with THR on the red carpet for 'A Quiet Place: Day One' and shares her experience going to therapy to get over her fear of cats before filming. Plus, she expresses how liberating it feels to not speak in the film.
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00:00I heard that you had a fear of cats when creating this film and I heard that you went to a form of cat therapy
00:06So what about that cat therapy helped you overcome your fear and how did you take that into this film?
00:11So by the time I got to making this film
00:13I was over my fear of cats because there was no way for me to play Sam without being over my favorite cat
00:18She has a cat with her the whole time
00:20but
00:22what the cat therapy took was just exposure to the cat and and
00:26Having that exposure with someone who could break down cat behavior to me in a way that made sense and was
00:33Patient enough. I think it was that being patient enough to ask the questions
00:37Here are the answers and gain confidence in the fact that this cat was not gonna scratch me or eat me
00:42And it took some time but by the time I was in
00:47The UK to start filming this movie. I was I had more confidence and by the end of it
00:53I was madly in love with the cats and I got myself one very quickly
00:57I know there's not a lot of dialogue in this film. There's a lot of eye acting is what people are calling it
01:02Oh my god. Do you have any specific choices that you made for your character to kind of make that eye?
01:08Acting to life. Oh, well, you know as human beings were always communicating with more than our words
01:13So for us as actors when we're reading a script, we're always looking for what's happening between the lines
01:18So then you just get rid of the dialogue and all you have is what's between the lines and there's a
01:23Certain kind of liver liberty that comes with that
01:26It's liberating to not have to speak and to explore character in that sort of primal
01:32Immediate way and then when you have a scene partner as great as Joe Quinn to go on the journey with
01:38It's so fruitful because it's spontaneous. It's fresh. It's exciting and it's dangerous. You don't know what's gonna happen in the scene