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'Us' kids Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex on playing doppelgangers for Jordan Peele

LOS ANGELES - In one of the most terrifying moments of Jordan Peele's latest horror thriller, "Us," now playing in wide release, the Wilson family (played by Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and young actors Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) are confronted by their own menacing doppelgangers in the darkened living room of a Santa Cruz, Calif., vacation home.

The sequence, which brings the Wilsons face to face with their seemingly nefarious counterparts - known as "the Tethered" - for the first time, required multiple days of shooting, four body doubles and occasional facial replacement. It would have been a

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