--- title: Oprah’s Hugs Feel Like Home to Lupita Nyong’o description: The 12 Years a Slave actress met Oprah at a Hollywood roundtable canonical: https://time.com/13450/oprahs-hugs-feel-like-home-to-lupita-nyongo/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-06T00:55:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:36:21.915Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Oprah’s Hugs Feel Like Home to Lupita Nyong’o og:description: The 12 Years a Slave actress met Oprah at a Hollywood roundtable og:url: https://time.com/13450/oprahs-hugs-feel-like-home-to-lupita-nyongo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc50b0aab226c9db/6986838506f2c1f48332da9d/lupita-nyongo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Lupita Nyong'o og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Oprah’s Hugs Feel Like Home to Lupita Nyong’o twitter:description: The 12 Years a Slave actress met Oprah at a Hollywood roundtable twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc50b0aab226c9db/6986838506f2c1f48332da9d/lupita-nyongo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Oprah’s Hugs Feel Like Home to Lupita Nyong’o  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Mar 6, 2014 12:55 AM CUT  Lupita Nyong'o, best supporting actress winner for her role in "12 Years a Slave", speaks on stage at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014\. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES TAGS: ENTERTAINMENT) (OSCARS-SHOW) Lupita Nyong'o, best supporting actress winner for her role in "12 Years a Slave", speaks on stage at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014\. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES TAGS: ENTERTAINMENT) (OSCARS-SHOW)Lucy Nicholson—Reuters  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Mar 6, 2014 12:55 AM CUT Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o can confirm what you’ve been guessing for years: Oprah gives spectacular hugs. “It’s like slow-motion. I turn around and Oprah Winfrey is coming towards me and her arms open wide and she gives me this big hug and she says ‘you were amazing in \[12 Years a Slave\],'” Nyong’o said in a video for Conan. “And it was just like…home. And she separated from me and all I could get out was ‘Hi Oprah.'” The talk show asked Nyong’o, who recently won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work on “12 Years a Slave,” to describe which celebrity encounter in the last year had made her the most starstruck . ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/13450/oprahs-hugs-feel-like-home-to-lupita-nyongo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/13450/oprahs-hugs-feel-like-home-to-lupita-nyongo/"},"headline":"Oprah’s Hugs Feel Like Home to Lupita Nyong’o","datePublished":"2014-03-06T00:55:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:36:21.915Z","description":"The 12 Years a Slave actress met Oprah at a Hollywood roundtable","url":"https://time.com/13450/oprahs-hugs-feel-like-home-to-lupita-nyongo/","keywords":["celebrities","Oprah","Oprah Winfrey","Lupita Nyong'o"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc50b0aab226c9db/6986838506f2c1f48332da9d/lupita-nyongo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc50b0aab226c9db/6986838506f2c1f48332da9d/lupita-nyongo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lupita Nyong'o","caption":"Lupita Nyong'o","creditText":"Lucy Nicholson—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/13450/oprahs-hugs-feel-like-home-to-lupita-nyongo/","name":"Oprah’s Hugs Feel Like Home to Lupita Nyong’o"}}]}] ```