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Watch: Jor­dan Peele on Us, dop­pel­gängers and rein­ter­pret­ing Hitchcock

20 Mar 2019

Words by Adam Woodward

A man with a beard wearing glasses and a red jacket.
A man with a beard wearing glasses and a red jacket.
The Amer­i­can writer/​director dis­cuss­es his night­mar­ish new horror.

Fol­low­ing the Oscar-win­ning suc­cess of Get Out, Jor­dan Peele is back with anoth­er nerve-shred­ding Amer­i­can hor­ror sto­ry. Set in and around the San Fran­sis­co Bay Area, Us is part home inva­sion chiller, part dop­pel­gänger mys­tery – with a clear nod to one of the old mas­ters of the genre.

To cel­e­brate the film’s the­atri­cal release, we sat down with the writer/​director to talk about rein­ter­pret­ing two clas­sic Alfred Hitch­cock films with a black cast, the first time he remem­bers being scared in the cin­e­ma as a kid, and his for­ma­tive VHS obsessions.

Peele also reveals how he would react if he sud­den­ly came face to face with his mir­ror image. Check out the full inter­view below and see Us in cin­e­mas from 22 March.

Direct­ed and edit­ed by Ed Andrews. Sub­scribe to LWLies on YouTube.

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