‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — 2016 Tonys Actress Roundtable (7 Broadway Standouts)

“For me,” says Lupita Nyong’o, the 33-year-old 12 Years a Slave Oscar winner turned best actress in a play Tony nominee for her Broadway debut in Eclipsed, “the hardest time is the moment before I get onstage, when the mountain is ahead of you and you’re just like, ‘I can’t.’ Every day, it’s total panic and confusion as to how this is supposed to happen, especially feeling the way I feel in that moment, the exhaustion my body is experiencing, being parched in the throat, drinking water and it’s just not doing enough. Then they say, ‘Places,’ and you get on that train, and before you know it, it’s over.”