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( From far left )
Daniel Kaluuya;
Betty Gabriel
Jordan Peele on
set;( left ) Bradley
Whitford and
Catherine KeenerWilliams) to meet her wealthy
suburban parents (Catherine
Keener and Bradley Whitford).
Mom and Dad are nice enough—
Dad insists that he would have
voted for Obama a third time if
he could have—but something is
off. What’s more, young black
men are disappearing in the
area, only to reappear changed...
somehow different...whiter. To say
anything else about the places
Get Out goes would be to spoil
the fun, but it’s safe to say that
there is terror, insanity, and—
because it’s still Peele—laughs.
The seed of the idea came to
Peele in part because of our 44th
president. The election of Barack
Obama spread the false notion of
a postracial America, a narrative
that directly contradicted Peele’s
experience. “What the movie was
originally focused on was pulling
back the layers to reveal that
racism, in fact, does exist,” he
says. “And there are people whoEVERY OTHER SOCIAL
DYNAMIC OR FEAR HAS
BEEN TACKLED, BUT
THERE’S BEEN SOMETHING
TABOO ABOUT RACE.”
—JORDAN PEELElive every day in fear of it in some
form or another, be it on a subtle
level or extreme level.” So Peele
conceived of a film imbued with
the social commentary ofThe
Stepford Wives and the satire of
Scream that pushed back against
the idea that black Americans had
no reason to be scared anymore.
The approach was specific to
him, and drawn in part from his
own life. (Without the bloodshed.)
“I’ve learned that to break into
a [new] side of the industry...
you kind of have to tell a very
personal story,” says Peele, who
married fellow comedian Chelsea
Peretti, who is white, last year.
“Nothing quite like what happens
inGet Out has happened to me
at all, but I knew the perspective
of the main character. It was a
story that I was kind of uniquely
equipped to tell.”
Peele’s hope is thatGet Out can
work on a few different wave-
lengths for audiences, especially
those who might not immediately
relate to it. “We need to discuss
these racial issues in a way that
doesn’t bum us out,” he says. “We
need to have a collective experi-
ence where we can go be enter-
tained, forget about life, and then
go home and think about what-
ever the film dealt with and debate
it.” Perhaps even with your in-laws.KALUUYA: UNIVERSAL PICTURES; ALL OTHERS: JUSTIN LUBIN/UNIVERSAL (3)