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Actress Lupita Nyong'o breaks down one of her favorite stage roles. From finding the right masculine stance to making audiences swoon with a mustache, she relives the highlights of her performance as Cesario.

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00:00Oh my god, what's his name? Don't tell me, don't tell me.
00:03Twelfth Night, did that in the park in New York, and I got to play my brother's twin,
00:12and that is me as Viola, dressed as, um, Cesario.
00:22She's in disguise as Cesario.
00:24And I got to wear this gorgeous Brooks Brothers tailor-made suit.
00:30First of all, I didn't expect to look so dapper.
00:32I felt real dapper in that suit.
00:35And then also just finding the stance, you know, finding my brother's stance and his gait.
00:41And I remember there was talk about me maybe having a beard and a mustache.
00:45In the end, we ended up with me having a mustache.
00:51And boy, oh boy, when I put on that mustache, did I feel fly.
00:56I remember people swooning over me, and that felt really good.
01:00We were cheesing over looking alike.
01:01We would walk down the streets of New York taking pictures like twinsies.
01:06It was lots of fun.

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