The winner of 2014’s Best Supporting Actress Academy Award said the achievement did not improve her career prospects.

Lupita Nyong’o won the Oscar race for starring in 12 Years a Slave in 2014. She revealed in a new interview that she was repeatedly offered more roles as an enslaved woman after her win. Nyong’o, a Kenyan-Mexican woman, was only the sixth Black woman to win the category in the Awards’ 97-year history.

“After I won the Academy Award, you’d think like, ‘Oh, I’m going to get the lead roles here and there,’” she told CNN. “But it’s, ‘Oh, Lupita. We’d like you to do another movie where you’re a slave, but this time you’re on a slave ship.’ Those are the kinds of offers I was getting in the months after winning my Academy Award.”

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