When Lupita Nyong’o commits, she commits. While working on “The Wild Robot,” her first time voicing the main character of an animated film, the Oscar-winning actress so fully embraced her role as a shipwrecked robot that she injured herself doing it.

This slightly futuristic fantasy is set on an uninhabited island where the titular robot – with its resemblance to the Tin Man of “The Wizard of Oz,” — is a Rozzum 7134 aka Roz, voiced by

During an exclusive screening in Atlanta, the Oscar-winning actress highlighted the film’s powerful themes, the allure of animation, and what it took to bring the classic story to a global audience.