If you missedJordan Peele‘s cameo in his newly released filmUs, you’re not alone.
During a recentinterview with Fandango, Peele, 40, revealed he has a role — aside from directing — in not onlyUs, but also his Academy Award-winning filmGet Out.
InUs, starringLupita Nyong’oandWinston Duke, Peele said he was the voice of a “dying rabbit.”
Peele went on to explain that this is the first time he’s revealed his role in both films. However, it was not immediately clear if he was being serious or joking.
Peele also spoke on what he wants viewers to get out ofUs.
“I just want people to have any conversation, that to me is the goal. If they wanted a starting place I would say ‘What is your part in the evils that you observe?'”
“In order for us to live a life in safety, or relative safety someone has to live a life of danger, we’re connected to evil whether or not we face it on the daily basis or not.”
“Maybe we are our own worst enemy,” Peele added.
Nyong’o, 36, who plays two characters — a traumatized mother Adelaide Wilson and her deadly doppelgänger Red — recently opened up about how she came up with Red’s raspy,choppy-like sounding voice.
Rabbits inUs.Universal Pictures
The deer inGet Out.Universal Pictures
“It’s sometimes emotional, sometimes physical, sometimes inexplicable, where your vocal cords involuntarily spasm to create this irregular flow of air. I built off of that and experienced someone with the condition, and I did more research and met up with people with the condition to talk about their personal experiences with it.”
Nyong’o also worked closely with a vocal therapist and dialect coach “to make sure I could do it safely,” she says. “Those were the risks I was taking, were the risks that Red had not spoken for a long time was the inspiration for wanting to explore something a little more stylistic.”
Lupita Nyong’o, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph.Claudette Barius/Universal Pictures
“About a week before we started filming, I called Jordan into the room and auditioned the voice for him,” she recalls. “I was very relieved when he was feeling it and encouraged me to go further with it.”
Nyong’o continues: “Jordan is very collaborative, and he really invited me into the whole creative process of making these women who they were. He trusted me to be the expert, that was my job.”
source: people.com
