A Quiet Place: Day One director explains character's tragic fate
A Quiet Place: Day One spoilers follow.
A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski has explained the motivation behind Lupita Nyong'o's character Samira.
The prequel to John Krasinski's horror film sees the Academy Award-winning star as cancer patient Sam who gets a new lease of life in the wake of an alien invasion.
"That's very much what we were going for — this idea that a dying person who had counted themselves out of life is finding a new light in the apocalypse, in the depth of the world around them," Sarnoski told Variety.
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"There's this unexpected journey of when everything's crumbling and everything seems to be ending, Sam manages to find one last little moment to cherish and enjoy and some last bit of connection in the world.
"If the world hadn't ended, she never would have gotten to have that ending for herself."
Nyong'o said that though her character has an unusual backstory for a horror movie, being aware of her own mortality allows Sam's journey to be all the more emotional.
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"What makes this story compelling is that Sam is a character at the beginning of this movie that's facing mortality in a way that we do not expect of a horror film: 'What happens when life is slipping away from you anyway, and then there's an alien invasion?'" Nyong'o told Variety about the character's final moments.
"She goes on a journey that, in a sense, the creatures give her a new lease of life in a way and she learns to value life while she has it."
A Quiet Place: Day One is out now in cinemas.
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