“I didnt want that sort of attention,” the actor says in a new interview.
The red carpet was new, everything was new to me."
all the speculation that they were an item.

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“It was drawing attention away from the work,” Nyong’o said.
“I didnt want that sort of attention.
I didnt want all that chatter to deter from the joy I was having becoming his friend.”
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