'Us' stars Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke talk The Tethered and avoiding spoilers
AUSTIN, Texas - Following the world premiere of Jordan Peele's "Us" on Friday night at the SXSW Film Festival, the consensus response seemed to involve two somewhat conflicting impulses.
One was to talk about the film. A lot. With its layered storytelling, nuanced performances and surprising twists, the movie is quite purposefully designed to start conversations. The second impulse was to see the movie again as soon as possible, if for no other reason than to prove or deny the various theories and readings that sprang from all that talking.
In the movie Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke play a married couple, Adelaide and Gabe Wilson, who find themselves and their two children under siege at their vacation home by people who seem to be evil-twin versions of themselves (dubbed Red and Abraham in the film's end credits), who come to be known as the Tethered. Eventually much is revealed about what is going on, but the film's deeper meanings will likely inspire months of conjecture and speculation.
