Lupita Nyong'o Talks Going to Cat Therapy Before Filming 'A Quiet Place: Day One' | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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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, I was over my fear of cats,

00:15because there was no way for me to play Sam without being over my favorite cats.

00:18She has a cat with her the whole time.

00:21But what the cat therapy took was just exposure to the cat,

00:25and having that exposure with someone who could break down cat behavior to me in a way that made sense,

00:33and was patient enough.

00:34I think it was that, being patient enough to ask the questions, hear the answers,

00:38and gain confidence in the fact that this cat was not going to scratch me or eat me.

00:43And it took some time, but by the time I was in the UK to start filming this movie,

00:51I had more confidence, and by the end of it, I was madly in love with the cat.

00:55And I got myself one.

00:56Yeah, very quickly, I know there's not a lot of dialogue in this film.

00:59There's a lot of eye acting, is what people are calling it.

01:02Oh my God.

01:03Do you have any specific choices that you made for your character to kind of make that eye acting to life?

01:09Oh, well, you know, as human beings, we're 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.

01:22And there's a certain kind of liberty that comes with that.

01:27It's liberating to not have to speak and to explore character in that sort of primal, immediate way.

01:33And 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.

01:44You don't know what's going to happen in the scene.

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