Jordan Peele on
Us 2019
Peele's second feature, which had premiered at South by Southwest the night before. He traces it to a childhood fear of the doppelganger, seeing himself across a subway platform, and to a suppressed idea he wanted to name: that we point the finger outward instead of at ourselves. He wrote it over about six months, four spent working out the themes and connections before turning it into a script. He calls it more of a Rorschach than Get Out and set out to start with a black family without making the movie about race. Lupita Nyong'o took ballet lessons to physically distinguish her two roles; Winston Duke plays Gabe as the relatable, that's-how-my-husband-would-act figure.
