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Lupita Nyong’o is fascinated by the “heightened nature” of the horror genre. The 41-year-old actress plays the lead role in the new film ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ – which takes place as killer aliens target anybody making noise – and thinks that horror provides a rare opportunity for audiences to be “openly scared”. Speaking to Variety at the movie’s New York City premiere on Wednesday (26.06.24), Lupita said: “This genre helps us exercise emotions that we are otherwise running away from a lot of the time, we don’t get permission to be openly scared in our real life. “I found myself coming (bac…