Beloved actor Lupita Nyong’o covers Glamour [IG] magazine June 2024, serving four powerhouse covers that project strength, confidence and high-voltage modernity across Britain, Germany, Mexico and the US.

The fashion message styled by Rachel Wang presents a sleek, bodycon fashion statement in pure red and leopard prints lensed by Adrienne Raquel [IG]. / Hair by Vernon Francois; makeup by Nick Barose

Glamour’s beauty editor Ariana Yaptangco joins Lupita Nyong’o at LA’s CatCafe Lounge [IG] for a chat.

Cover designers include top to bottom 1] a red knit Hermès crop top and micro mini shorts by Vex, coupled with two berets representing a collaboration between Atsudo Kudo and Vex; 2] a fiery red latex bodysuit by Atsuko Kudo;

3] a leopard print PRISCAVera dress with a scarf-effect, plunging neckline; and 4] a Norma Kamali leopard print catsuit worn with De Beers diamonds. Nyong’o became a DeBeers ambassador in 2022.

A Strong Box Office Opening

The film ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ has opened to very strong reviews— which no longer translates to box office revenue. In Lupita’s case, her film booked $53 million in last weekend’s domestic opening. Add international box office, and the tally is $98.5 million.

The prequel exceeded the original 2018 "A Quiet Place," [$50 million to start] and the 2021 sequel, "A Quiet Place Part II" [a $48 million debut during COVID].

Author Stephen King wrote on X: “A QUIET PLACE DAY 1: The rare "big Hollywood film" that is both intimate and textured," wrote King in his post. "[And the cat steals the show.]"

Lupita Nyong’o: Reborn a Cat Lady

Nyong’o had such a severe fear of cats, that she begged director Michael Sarnoski to employ a different animal for her role in the film.

“I asked the director Michael Sarnoski if there was any way that we could change the animal,” Nyong’o said. “I suggested an armadillo; he was not having it.”

"I had been afraid of cats," Nyong'o explain. "I just hadn't spent much time with them. This film forced me to learn about cats, and I had to look like I owned a cat, and look like I cared, and look like I loved the cat. In the process of playing that pretend, I actually fell in love with the cats, Nico and Schnitzel. They're so sweet and cute."

Yoyo to the Rescue

For Lupita, the film production coincided with a deeply sad time in her life, self-described as a ‘season of heartbreak’ over the end of her public relationship with Selema Masekela.

A voice in a devastated Lupita said, 'Get a cat,'" she tells Glamour. Shortly after, when a poster was hanging in the animal shelter that said, "Not over your ex yet? Get a cat." Nyong’o tells everyone that Yoyo pried her heart open. "It may look like I saved Yoyo, but really, Yoyo is saving me."

Lupita tells Glamour that Yoyo has never left her side, since the day they came together.

Facing Death and Mortality

In her new movie ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’, Lupita plays Sam, a poet battling both terminal cancer and also aliens hunting humans based on sound.

In her new movie ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’, Lupita plays Sam, a poet battling both terminal cancer and aliens hunting humans based on sound. The ‘Black Panther’ star had not yet recovered from the death of her co-star Chadwick Boseman, who died of his private battle with colon cancer in August 2020 at age 43.

For millions of people, but especially those closest to Boseman, his death was a total gut punch, one very much similar to the loss many of us in fashion world continue to feel over the premature death of Louis Vuitton Men Creative Director Virgil Abloh.

Like getting Yoyo, Lupita now says that playing Sam, a woman in the final phase of this earthly life, was very therapeutic.

"What I came to realize is that it's really important to be reminded of our mortality because then we live life just a little more intentionally," the actor told Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. "When we think we have all the time in the world, we can really take people for granted and experiences for granted."

Never let anyone tell you that Lupita Nyong’o doesn’t have a really deep mind and life perspective. Her interviews are never light reading. ~ Anne