Best Supporting Actress Nominee Lupita Nyong'o talks about her roll in the film "12 Years a Slave"

"She had to live a very very present life in order to survive, and that's something I want to take away for the rest of my life," Lupita said on what she had learned from her character.

When asked by Reuters Television what an Oscar win would mean to the budding star, she replied with a simple "a lot."