Lupita Nyong’o Shares How Taylor Swift’s Music ‘Lifted Her Up’ Amid ‘Self Doubt’

Lupita Nyong’o showed love for Taylor Swift as she recalled how the pop superstar’s music helped her during a difficult time in her life.

The Academy Award winner told Sean Evans, host of First We Feast’s hit YouTube series “Hot Ones,” that she contacted Swift after producers were unable to acquire the rights to “Hot Ones.”Shake it offfor her 2019 film “Little Monsters.” (First We Feast and JS share a parent company, Buzzfeed Inc.)

“When I was working on ‘Star Wars’ in London, I doubted myself a lot because it was the second thing I did,” explains Nyong’o, who stars in ‘A Quiet Place: Day One.’ ”

She continued, “I got a little depressed. My best friend came to London, and Taylor had just released ‘Shake It Off’, and he played it for me to put me in a better mood, and we just jumped on my bed, and we just danced and danced, and it went up my spirit.”

Nyong’o previously revealed how the song put her through a “professional time difficult‘ at that time and in an interview from 2019 with USA Today, described the song as an “anthem” of hers.

“That’s one of the reasons why my interest in this movie was piqued when I read the script, because I thought, ‘Someone else will love ‘Shake It Off’ as much as I do!” she said of Abe Forsythe’s “Little Monsters,” a film in which she plays Miss Audrey Caroline and performs the Swift song on a ukulele.

The Oscar winner told Evans that she decided to contact Swift after producers informed her they could not obtain the rights to the song.

“I’m going to make a pitch, I’m going to let Taylor know what this song means to me, and I told her that story about how it brought me out of almost a depression,” Nyong’o recalls. made friendship bracelets before making a stop on Swift’s Eras Tour last year.

“And before I knew it, it was all cleared up.”

She further noted that she hadn’t seen Swift in years and later thanked the singer for giving her approval.