Lupita Nyong'o stood her ground.

Over a decade after earning Best Supporting Actress at the 2014 Oscars for her debut role in 12 Years a Slave , Lupita shared insight into her decision to turn down future roles.

"My winning an Academy Award came at the very start of my career," she told Angélique Kidjo in a Nov. 22 CNN Inside Africa interview. "It was for the very first film that I had done. It really did set the paces for everything I've done since."

"But you know what's interesting is that, after I won that Academy Award, you'd think, 'Oh, I'm gonna get lead roles here and there,'" she continued. Instead, she was told, "'Oh, Lupita, we'd like you to play another movie where you're a slave, but this time you're on a slave ship.'"

Indeed, after earning the golden

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