GET OUT writer-director Jordan Peele’s US was robbed by the Oscars, who gave the film ZERO nominations. There. I said it. And today we hear that last night at a screening of US, Peele teased what happened to the Tethered after the credits rolled.
Peele says:
I’d resist to actually answer that question because you never know what could happen. But I think part of the answer you’re looking for is that to the Tethered it doesn’t matter. Their purpose is the expression and there was something kind of terrifying to me – we see it all the time today – terrifying to me about the idea of violence as an expression because it’s an inevitable force … I feel like what happens after is fascinating but irrelevant to the Tethered.
He adds:
Part of what I became fascinated with is this idea of a fated connection is part scientific but it’s also part poetic. And when you talk about a fated connection that can manifest in ways that don’t necessarily operate on a mathematical cause and response, but that there can be a poetic connection. I could almost drown when I’m eight years old and my doppelgänger could simultaneously almost be burnt alive, or he could almost drown, or something else weirdly poetically connected could happen. So that to me created this rule system where there’s a certain part you can’t scrutinize; there’s a certain part you have to allow to be poetic and be fun and be emotionally driven.
Written and directed by Peele US stars Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon, and Madison Curry. Peele produced US through his company Monkeypaw Productions, along with Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, and Ian Cooper. Daniel Lupi served as executive producer. Buy it on Blu-ray HERE.