Jordan Peele says it’s not “our addiction to the show” – Exclusive Image

When Jordan Peele makes a movie, he does it with two intentions: to deliver a great popcorn movie that will take audiences on an exciting adventure, and to pick up some big and important ideas in the process. In saltimmersed in the racism that lurks just beneath a surface of respectability in liberal America, and within WE presented a touching allegory on class and duality. Now it’s about to start all over again No – a film whose secrets are largely kept under wraps. However, from the most recent trailer we now know that these are UFO sightings, while other previews of the film have hinted at ideas about Hollywood cinema, cultural ranches, and the first sequence: a photo of a black man on horseback. . It looks like a particularly Peele-ish concoction, and in a new one Empire interview, he recounted what he investigates with his third feature film as a director, in a word: spectacle.

“I started with the desire to make a film that would put the audience in the immersive experience of being in the presence of a UFO,” he says, teasing the aliens. But the idea grew from there into a larger meditation. “I wanted to do a show, something that promoted my favorite art form and my favorite way of seeing that art form: the theatrical experience. When I started writing the script, I began to delve into the nature of the show, our addiction to the show, and the insidious nature of attention. So that’s what this is about. And it’s about brother and sister and healing their relationship ”. They will be Daniel Kaluuya’s OJ and Keke Palmer’s Emerald, a couple whose mission is to capture the UFO they believe threatens their area.

As for this reference to the very origins of cinema, it has everything to do with Peele’s intentional but incidental efforts to center people of color in his films. “The part of African American history that this speaks to more than anything else is the spectacularization of blacks, as well as the elimination of us, of industry, of many things,” he explains. “I think in many ways this film is a response to Muybridge’s music video, which was the first series of stills put in sequential order to create a moving image; and he was a black man on horseback. We know who Eadweard Muybridge is, the man who created the clip, but we don’t know who that guy on horseback is. He is the first movie star, the first animal trainer, the first stuntman in a movie and nobody knows who he is! This cancellation is part of what the main characters in this film are trying to correct. They are trying to claim their rightful place as part of the show. And what the film is also about is the toxic nature of attention and the insidiousness of our human addiction to the show. “If Peele is as good at exploring the show as he is creating it, we should expect a special and spooky summer.

Lily EmpireIs full Nointerview focused on Jordan Peele in the next one Avatar: The way of water issue, on sale Thursday 7 July and available for preorder online here. No will be released in UK cinemas from 12 August.