In a new essay penned for Lenny Letter, Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's subscription-only weekly newsletter, Oscar-winning actresss Lupita Nyong'o defends her decision to star in Danai Gurira's Broadway play "Eclipsed." The essay, entitled "Why I Chose a 'Small Play' over the Big Screen" doesn't simply address why Nyong'o, whose trajectory as a major rising star was sealed with her best supporting actress win for "12 Years a Slave," decided to pursue work on the stage, but also why she's picked big screen roles that some people think are somehow beneath her. Nyong'o gets to the point quickly, noting that "Eclipsed" is "a powerhouse of a story about the lives of five extraordinary women trapped by a rebel commander during the Liberian civil war" and that she loves doing it, but that hasn't kept people from asking her why she took the part on.

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