"I've seen that movie."
Jordan Peele is on a goddamn roll. Us, his superbly oblique horror follow-up to Get Out, is a massive success, his Twilight Zone reboot premieres next week, and the guy still has a shit-ton of Nazi-hunting showsand Lovecraft County adaptations and unofficial Key & Peele reunions in the pipeline. Peele has already cemented his place as one of the greatest and most prolific filmmakers in the business, and it sounds like he's going to keep using his growing fame to push Hollywood in a better direction—by refusing to make movies starring yet another white dude.
"I feel fortunate to be in this position where I can say to Universal, 'I want to make a $20 million horror movie with a black family.' And they say yes," Peele said during a Q&A in Los Angeles on Monday, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
"I don’t see myself casting a white dude as the lead in my movie. Not that I don’t like white dudes—but I've seen that movie."
"It really is one of the best, greatest pieces of this story, is feeling like we are in this time," Peele went on, as the audience reportedly cheered. "A renaissance has happened and proved the myths about representation in the industry are false."
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