Lupita Nyongo admits she was always afraid ofcats, until an alien invasion changed her mind.
Nyongo credits A Quiet Place: Day One for helping her overcome her felinophobia.
Ive been terrified of cats my entire life, Nyongo said in an interview last week with CBS Mornings.
Lupita Nyong’o in ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection
I wouldnt be in a room with a cat, I would cry …
I just found them suspicious, you know?
Theyre like little lions, and like, if they were any bigger, they would eat us.
Nyongo now has an orange tabby cat named Yoyo.
In an Instagram post, she said that it was time to embrace change and new possibilities.
It may look like I saved Yoyo, but really, Yoyo is saving me, wrote Nyongo.
She fostered her cat before adopting him through the Best Friends Animal Society.
A Quiet Place: Day One was a ey toward her changes.
She said that she fell in love with costars Nico and Schnitzel while on set.
Theres something that melts your heart when they hold onto you.
It was a bond that I had with them.
