Lupita Nyong'o has strutted red carpets and won Academy Awards, so you would have thought her first cover issue for Vogue would be a breeze.
But then a cobra arrived for the shoot.
The 12 Years A Slave Oscar-winner is seen staring down the venomous snake across a table in one of the amazing photographs from the July issue of Vogue.
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Actress Lupita Nyong'o on the cover of Vogue.