I have this awful habit: when I get too excited about a movie, I start to get mad at myself for being such a cheeseball, and then I end up getting mad at the movie before I even see it. Like, the build-up for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been growing for so many months now, and I can’t simply maintain the level of excitement, so I’m just pissed off right now. I’m pissed off at myself and the movie. I want to see it NOW. And since I can’t see it now, I hate everything!

Anyway, these are some photos of Lupita Nyong’o and Oscar Isaac at the Mexico City photocall for Star Wars. Lupita’s dress is Roland Mouret and her hair is spectacular. Oscar looks good too – he’s been pushed forward for promotional duties in a lot of Spanish-speaking areas, and there’s even an international teaser trailer which features Oscar speaking Spanish directly to the camera. It’s really hot. Meanwhile, Lupita gave a lengthy new interview to Refinery29, which you can read here. Some highlights:

Lupita hasn’t told anyone the Star Wars plot: “My mother wants to know… I haven’t even told my mother. I haven’t told anyone. I enjoy keeping a secret, so I’m thriving on this. I’m thriving! I love it. It’s not hard at all.”

Learning how to do motion-capture: “Motion-capture is something that I’ve had my eye on ever since seeing Andy Serkis in Lord of the Rings, and then going on to see Zoe Saldana do it, and Benedict Cumberbatch, and folks like that. It looked like an opportunity to really play as an actor, because you’re not limited by your physical circumstances. And after playing Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, which was so much about the body, here was an opportunity where I was completely relieved of that. And I liked it.”

What she thinks of the comparisons of her character, Maz, to Yoda: “I don’t. [Laughs] That’s the safest answer.”

What she thinks of her Oscar win two years later: “Well…it’s not an obvious thing. It’s very hard to tell for sure, seeing as [12 Years a Slave] was my introduction to the world, to the film industry. So I don’t have a before and an after. I just have that as my first experience, so I’d like to believe that it has afforded me choice. I feel like I can make certain choices and I can go after things that I’m passionate about and kind of see them happen. Like, Eclipsed is an example of something that I feel my winning the Oscar made possible to do. It was a role that I understudied back when I was at the Yale School of Drama, and I fell in love with the role and the play back then. Winning the Oscar, I had people asking me whether I wanted to do theater and if I did, what I wanted to do. I was able to say Eclipsed, and the Public [Theater] and the Broadway producers, they made it happen.”

[From Refinery29]

She also says that she still hasn’t seen The Force Awakens, but that she’ll do with friends to the theater when it opens, and that it’s the kind of film you need to see in a group. See… now I’m mad again. Why can’t this movie be out right now?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.