In real life, of the prominent Hollywood horse trainers, there’s not an African American one I’m representing. Peele: Part of the world of “Nope” is flirting with real Hollywood and the Hollywood that takes place in my liminal dreams and nightmares. The meta part is you’re commenting on this notion at the same time you’re trying to utilize it and trying to create something that people can’t look away from.ĪP: Why do you think in writing “Nope” your thoughts went back to the beginning of film? I was inspired by films like “King Kong” and “Jurassic Park” that really deal with the human addiction to spectacle and the presentation and monetization of that. Making a movie is basically like chasing the impossible, trying to bottle something that doesn’t exist. To you, is “Nope” about the movie industry? It’s a sequel, it’s an antidote, it’s a reboot, it’s an answer to the way films began and have continued.ĪP: Kaluuya and Palmer’s characters work on movie sets and “Nope” centers on their attempts to capture something on film. It just felt very fitting for that starting point to be acknowledged and have ancestral implications for our main characters.ĪP: Do you think of your movie as like an antidote to that film? So I’m juxtaposing this origin story of film at the same time I’m trying to make a story that’s scary and joyous and adventures and everything I love about film. I felt like five, 10 years ago, I would never have been able to sell this movie to anyone. It was something I was learning at a good point for myself in this story. To you, what does it mean that the erasure of Black men was there at the foundation of cinema? The Eadweard Muybridge loop looms over “Nope’ your characters are said to be descendants from its unnamed rider. Responses have been edited for brevity and clarity.ĪP.
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I had to go as big as possible,” said Peele. “I feel like this is the first moment that anyone would ever allow me or anyone to make this movie. PHOTOS: Q&A: Jordan Peele on the dreams and nightmares of 'Nope' But while the name of the horse and its owner was recorded, the name of the Black jockey is unknown. He pointedly opens the film with Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 photographic study showing a Black rider on a horse. For Peele, as he said speaking recently by Zoom from Los Angeles, “Nope” is about reaching for a kind of Hollywood movie once unattainable.