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“I’m a very lucky man. I’ve got two babies coming right This time marks a lot of firsts in the life of Peele, the actor and comedian who is often recognized as half Since the Emmy-winning Comedy Central As an actor known for his insightful and intelligent comedy, it’s not surprising that Peele would draw inspiration from a comedy icon for his move into horror. At a special screening of the film in Los Angeles, Peele revealed how Eddie Murphy’s famous “Haunted House” routine from his Delirious comedy special inspired him. “Eddie Murphy is talking about the difference between how a white family and a black family would react in a haunted house. And the white family stays and the black family hears, 'Get out!’ -- [and says] 'Too bad we can’t stay baby,’” Jordan explains before going on to call Murphy’s joke one of “the best bits of all time.”
This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors. If you are using ad-blocking software, please disable it and reload the page. The film was more directly inspired, though, by one of Peele's past relationships with a white woman. “I had to ask the question, 'If I’m going to meet your parents, do they know I’m black?’ And she was like, 'No,’” he recounts, describing being worried about seeing a change in her parents’ faces when they realize he’s black. But what happened was even more surprising. “I don’t know if she told them or if she didn’t, but there was no reaction [from them]. That in itself was this creepy moment, because I’m like, 'OK. Well, then what is going on here?’” That moment is directly reflected in Get Out, when a young black man named Chris (Black Mirror’s Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend Rose (Girls star Allison Williams) go to meet Rose’s parents, played by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener. The meeting begins with awkward jokes about the interracial coupling and eventually hints at something more sinister in store for Chris. The film is a meditation on race and racism, born in the days following the election of President Barack Obama -- a time that Peele calls a “post-racial lie.” “There was this sentiment, like, 'Alright we’re done. We got a black president. Let’s not talk about it anymore.’ And that’s kind of where the original 'Obama Anger Translator’ sketch came from -- this feeling like, 'Well, if he ain’t going to say it, somebody needs to say it,’” Peele explains. “So, this was about sort of identifying these hints and these little subtle reminders that any black person in America is consistently reminded that race is real.” To translate that experience into a horror film, Peele tapped into the paranoia he felt during that first meeting with his ex-girlfriend's family. “You can be in a situation where you don’t know [and think:] Am I being paranoid? Is there something real going on? Is it both? That to me was a perfect situation -- a perfect thing to give a protagonist of a horror movie,” he says, adding there’s one question his favorite horror movies always ask: “Am I imagining this?” “I just was so happy that Jordan was saying this. And it was Explaining the resonance of Get Out, Kaluuya adds: “This film deals with how much Williams agrees. “My hope is that it just gets people Peele, who is biracial (his mother is white and his father “She was just relieved it was good. In the first 10 minutes, Which is great, considering that Peele promises more horror While the film debuted at a secret screening during the 2017 Peele is right -- the first time you see the |
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