Actor
Lupita Nyong'o
learned to play the ukulele for her role of a school teacher in horror-comedy
'Little Monsters'
.
The 36-year-old actor plays a preschool teacher who fights to keep her students alive in the middle of a zombie outbreak. She tries to keep the spirits high with ukulele sing-alongs of hit songs such as
Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'.
The actor said she was happy that she had a musically-gifted character but she did ask whether she was getting a ukulele double for the role.
"I love Fraulein Maria in 'The Sound of Music' and she's [Miss Caroline is] my Fraulein. I even asked [Abe], 'Are you gonna have a ukulele double?," she said at a conference.
Director
Abe Forsythe, who also attended the event with Nyong'o, replied, "I told her, 'No, you can win an Oscar, you can learn to play the ukulele.' "
The actor wrote to Swift to help get the rights of the song.
"It meant a lot to me that this film had that (song). And so when I heard that they were having a hard time (getting the rights) I wrote Taylor Swift myself and asked her, and told her that story. And she said yes!," Nynog'o said.
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