In Star Wars: Lupita N'yongo got one of the most entertaining supporting roles in The Force Awakens, as thousand-year-old smuggler Maz Kanata, whose castle is attacked once Han (Harrison Ford), Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn come to visit. A pitch-perfect example of how to get performance capture right, hopefully this won't be the last we see of Maz (and considering the amount of unused material developed for her character, it probably isn't). The New Movie: In Jon Favreau's live-animation remake of the classic Disney film, N'yongo plays Raksha (Lupita Nyong'o), one of the Indian wolves who raises young Mowgli (Neel Sethi). Considering the superb work she did on Star Wars in bringing a performance-captured character to life, she'll knock this one out of the park no problem.
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