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    How one LA restaurant created the 'perfect fish sandwich' for Jordan Peele's 'Nope'

    by Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times Jul 29, 2022 4 minutes
    Gilberto Cetina's "Nope" fish sandwich drew inspiration from the chef's Baja-style fish taco, which is available at restaurant Holbox.

    LOS ANGELES — Amid alien contact, thrilling chase sequences and cathartic emotional beats, "Nope" considers a range of ideological concepts — legacy, race, exploitation and the taming of nature among them. But writer-director Jordan Peele's summer blockbuster also poses a more fundamental question: What makes the perfect fish sandwich?

    Eagle-eyed viewers might recognize Peele's fictional fast-food chain, Copperpot's Cove — where O.J. Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya), sister Em (Keke Palmer) and their Fry's tech-support tag-along Angel Torres (Brandon Perea) seek comfort in a fried fish sandwich after a narrow escape — from the blue-and-yellow food packaging that appears on the Wilson family's dining table in Peele's previous film, "Us."

    Peele, in "Nope's" press notes, declined to confirm

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