Jordan Peele on race, RoRo and why you don't need to tell him you've seen 'Get Out' three times
LOS ANGELES - Jordan Peele invites me into his office on the third level of a spacious Hollywood Hills home where his production company, Monkeypaw, has taken up residence the last few months. Dogs run free, books are stacked in almost every corner and the walls are filled with art from his Oscar-nominated social thriller "Get Out."
"Take a seat," Peele says casually. Then, after a beat: "You recognize that chair, right?"
Peele has just put me in the same leather armchair that Missy Armitage (Catherine Keener) invites Chris Washington (Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya) to sit in before she sends him falling into the Sunken Place. Missy's floral-accented chair is just off to the left; Peele spreads out on a couch across from me.
"I definitely needed to take a couple of things from the set after the movie wrapped," he says, smiling.
Peele knew the Missy-Chris hypnosis scene would become iconic. But he figured it would take years and, like most horror films, its appreciation would exist on a cult level. Instead "Get Out," released the weekend "Moonlight" won the best picture Oscar last year, grossed $254 million and became a cultural phenomenon, the subject of endless discussions over its
