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Jordan Peele Scares\u00a0America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Ringer<\/a>
\n2017-03-09<\/p>\n

Sean Fennessey<\/strong><\/a>, Editor-in-Chief<\/p>\n

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\n(Jaya Nicely)<\/small><\/p>\n

After the amazing success of his directorial debut, \u2018Get Out<\/a>,\u2019 the \u2018Key and Peele<\/a>\u2019 star sits down for a conversation about how he pulled off his daring horror-satire, the lie of a post-racial society, and what comes\u00a0next<\/em><\/p>\n

Get Out<\/em><\/a> broke out. One year ago, if someone had told you that a movie about a black guy visiting the home of his white girlfriend\u2019s parents for a summer weekend\u200a\u2014\u200astarring an unknown lead<\/a> and Marnie from Girls<\/em><\/a>\u200a\u2014\u200awould become the unmitigated Hollywood success story of the young year, you might tell that person to, well, get out. But that is exactly what Jordan Peele<\/a>, the 38-year-old sketch star best known for Comedy Central\u2019s<\/a> Key and Peele<\/em><\/a>, has accomplished with his directorial debut.<\/p>\n

After just two weeks of release, the movie has already earned more than 18 times its reported $4.5 million budget and ignited a new kind of conversation about race, the pitfalls of white liberalism, and what it really means to make a horror movie in 2017. Peele, who also wrote the movie, sat down for a podcast conversation about how he did it and what comes next. This is a condensed and edited version of that conversation…<\/p>\n