Photos: Striking Lupita Nyong’o On The Cover Of DuJour Magazine

The 30-year-old ’12 Years A Slave’ Actress looked breathtakingly gorgeous in an array of flattering outfits in a photo spread for DuJour Magazine’s Winter 2013 issue. Lupita tells DuJour…

“My life changed about three weeks ago,” she says, her fingers wrapped tightly around a mug at a hushed New York City teahouse. “That’s when my schedule went from nil to this.”“Lots of people come up and touch my back and want to give me a hug,” Nyong’o says. “At this point, it’s not too crazy. I let them hug me.”“When I learned Steve McQueen was directing and Brad Pitt was producing, I thought, Well, this is huge,” she says. “I had no expectation of getting the role at all; it was just too out there for me to think I had a chance. So I approached the audition like a rehearsal. It was my chance to have that role for 10 minutes, and I owned it. Then I got the part and the panic began.”

See more stunning photos after the cut…







 
Lupita in a short green-patterned frock at a DuJour magazine bash in NYC on Wednesday.
 

Conquering the fashion world: Lupita later visited the Late Show With David Letterman studio.