The film begins as a home invasion thriller. That is to say that there is a lot to unpack in the film’s messaging and subtext. “I’m looking out at a sea of people being like, hmm. That make people think.įollowing the rafter-shaking first screening of Us at the SXSW Film Festival, Jordan Peele took the stage alongside Duke, Nyong’o, and the rest of the film’s cast, looked out at the audience, and laughed.
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It’s makes for a breakout film career that’s rare, to the point that Duke may be the first example: an actor whose first two movie roles were in projects that audiences were salivating to see, but that also have cultural value, that are milestones. Like Get Out, the film is as exhilarating to dissect with friends after a screening as it is to watch and get freaked out by, tackling themes of privilege, race, and even philanthropy in between scares. Duke got cast after introducing himself to the writer and director at the Oscars last year when the Black Panther cast, fresh off the just-released film’s blockbuster success, was invited to attend the ceremony. The film is Peele’s follow-up to 2017 Oscar-winning social thriller Get Out. Us, in which Duke and Nyong’o play parents in a family that is terrorized by bloodlusting doppelgangers while on vacation, set the record for the highest opening ever for an original horror film this past weekend, raking in $70 million-nearly doubling industry estimates. Or that they would both have their first leading roles in a movie starring opposite each other again, and that movie, Jordan Peele’s horror thriller Us, would break box-office records, just as Black Panther had done before. That the two of them would see The Avengers together and wonder if they, two black actors, would ever be in a movie like that, and then get cast alongside each other in Black Panther. “This” is the fact that Nyong’o, a few short years later, would win an Oscar for her performance in 12 Years a Slave. “It’s such serendipity, man,” he says, sprawled on a couch at New York’s Whitby Hotel. The 32-year-old now bona fide movie star still shakes his head in disbelief when you ask him about it. An incredibly kind student a few years ahead in the program had been assigned to show him around campus, and the two became instant friends.
The then-aspiring actor had just arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, freshly graduated from the University of Buffalo and newly accepted into the prestigious Yale School of Drama graduate program. There’s a story that’s Winston Duke has told a lot recently because it’s, well, kind of perfect.
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