The Force Awakens Lupita Nyong'o as Maz Kanata

[titansupes]

Maz Kanata concept art leaked by Indie Revolver.

 

[Rowsdower!]

So they cast one of the most beautiful actresses on the planet and they turned her into an E.T./Rango hybrid. Good job, Abrams.

 

[DKDetective]

So they cast one of the most beautiful actresses on the planet and they turned her into an E.T./Rango hybrid. Good job, Abrams.

Or maybe they cast an expressive, Oscar winning actress because they felt that she could deliver a motion capture performance that would bring a difficult character to life. She has worth as a performer beyond her youth and physical appearance. Your post comes off pretty shallow man...

 

[Rowsdower!]

I'm sorry, it's just that in an era where people are finally waking up to the amount of whitewashing in Hollywood, we still only have one (visible) black actor in what will be the biggest movie of the year. Meanwhile, you've got one of the most talented and popular actresses at your disposal, as she's relegated to mo-cap work. I'm sure she'll do a good job but aside from Andy Serkis, there aren't many actors out there who deliver mo-cap performances that are superior to their actual performances. It just bugs me. I feel like actresses like Lupita should be headlining big movies like this, and not be sidelined while actresses barely anyone has ever heard of are front and center.

 

[stormtrooper]

Im sure she'll kill it but what a waste to obscure that beautiful face in what is one of the biggest movie franchises on earth.

 

[DKDetective]

I'm sorry, it's just that in an era where people are finally waking up to the amount of whitewashing in Hollywood, we still only have one (visible) black actor in what will be the biggest movie of the year. Meanwhile, you've got one of the most talented and popular actresses at your disposal, as she's relegated to mo-cap work. I'm sure she'll do a good job but aside from Andy Serkis, there aren't many actors out there who deliver mo-cap performances that are superior to their actual performances. It just bugs me. I feel like actresses like Lupita should be headlining big movies like this, and not be sidelined while actresses barely anyone has ever heard of are front and center.

That's not fair a fair criticism of this particular film though. There is one major visible black cast member because the cast IS diverse. The main lead is a female and the other two primary heroes are latin and black. As well, one of the two primary villains is also a woman and Lupita's role, despite being a mocap performance, is supposed to be quite significant. In light of that bigger picture, your criticism seems really ill-founded in my opinion. Whitewashing Khan in STID and Bane in TDKR, as well as Disney's failure to provide Black Widow merchandising seem like issues far more worthy of your ire and criticism.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Looking at the concept art it seems the character is a Kaminoan.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Noooooo not planet El Camino!

 

[Apollo]

I am wondering if Maz and her species live on Jakku. Does anyone remember seeing those production photos with the small huts with the small doors which were built on a desert like environment. I am wondering if her species lives in those structures.

 

[Apollo]

I was also hoping that we would see Lupita actually face. But the CGI character seems interesting.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I am wondering if Maz and her species live on Jakku. Does anyone remember seeing those production photos with the small huts with the small doors which were built on a desert like environment. I am wondering if her species lives in those structures.

Maz and her castle are not no Jakku.

 

[Ryan1985]

She does almost look like she's from Kamino but obviously they changed her look during production. She appears to be brownish-orange in the second teaser. Either way I hope the rumors of her training Finn are true.

 

[Apollo]

Lupita spotted at D23 today

 

[ThePhantasm]

 

[Apollo]

Another pic of Lupita at D23 today

 

[DarthSkywalker]

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[danoyse]

Lupita just did a "paranoid person whose pants are falling down" silly walk on Colbert's show, and it was glorious.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Vogue - Lupita Nyong’o’s Second Vogue Cover! The Star Wars Actress On Hollywood and High Fashion

While we tuck into delicious platters of fish, sorbets, and cheeses, Lupita tells me that she has just spent four months filming a CGI character—a pirate named Maz Kanata—for J. J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, opening this December. “We needed a powerful actress to play a powerful character,” the director explains to me later. “Lupita was someone I’d known a little and was enormously fond of. More important, her performance in 12 Years a Slave blew my mind, and I was vaguely desperate to work with her.”

Acting a motion-capture character was “really bizarre and lots of fun,” Lupita says. “I really enjoyed the fact that you’re not governed by your physical presence in that kind of work. You can be a dragon. You can be anything.”

http://www.vogue.com/13336021/lupita-nyongo-october-2015-cover/

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The new TV spot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is narrated by Lupita Nyong’o’s alien character Maz Kanata, and so it’s fitting that it opens on her home – a castle on the planet Takodana. Director J.J. Abrams calls this her “watering hole.” We’ve only seen her on the poster – a smallish figure with black goggles. Her eyes are covered because they hold a secret power. That’s why her narration is significant: “I have lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people. I see your eyes. I know your eyes.”

http://www.ew.com/gallery/star-wars...ce-awakens-screengrab-revenant-posters-2015-4

 

[BatLobster]

I'm so fascinated by Maz. Leaning on so much of her dialogue for these trailers is just building up the intrigue around her character for me.

 

[Brother Jack]

I've gotten a Yoda-like vibe from her dialogue and design. Which is not what I was expecting at all. Considering she's supposed to be an outlaw pirate I figured the character would be closer to Jabba. In that sense it's a little odd that she seems to know so much about the force.

 

[Napoleon]

I've gotten a Yoda-like vibe from her dialogue and design. Which is not what I was expecting at all. Considering she's supposed to be an outlaw pirate I figured the character would be closer to Jabba. In that sense it's a little odd that she seems to know so much about the force.

Same here.

 

[Drizzle]

I've gotten a Yoda-like vibe from her dialogue and design. Which is not what I was expecting at all. Considering she's supposed to be an outlaw pirate I figured the character would be closer to Jabba. In that sense it's a little odd that she seems to know so much about the force.

Just like how Yoda was first introduced in Empire, looks can be deceiving.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Maz definitely feels like she is intended to be this trilogy's Yoda but with her own unique twists.

 

[Broseph44]

Maz definitely feels like she is intended to be this trilogy's Yoda but with her own unique twists.

Definitely, and I like it