Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Rounds Out Cast As Production Begins
Jordan Peele’s upcoming “social thriller"Usis finally rounding out its cast. Five new actors have been added to theUscast, joining the already-castLupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss, Winston Dukeas the Universal feature begins production.
Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Madison Curry, Cali Sheldon,andNoelle Sheldonhave all joined theUscast,Varietyreports.
The five new cast members have all been cast in undisclosed roles in what has been advertised as a
“new nightmare” from Peele.Usis Peele’s highly anticipated follow-up to his Oscar-winning debut,Get Out, which grew from a sleeper hit into a pop culture phenomenon last year.Get Outis a truly brilliant genre-bending horror flick from Peele, who was previously known as a comedian who co-created the Comedy Central sketch showKey and Peele. And now after his splashy directorial debut, he is helmingUs, which stars Nyong’o, Moss, Duke,Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II,andAnna Diop.
Little else is known aboutUsfor now, but we could potentially find out more as the film heads into production.
Peeleadmitted thathe felt pressure after the overwhelming success ofGet Out, and thought carefully about his new project:
“What do I do next? How do I top[GetOut]?And you know, and I think it’s important to focus on stories that are true to me. I go, when writingGet Out, my sort of mantra is or was, ‘Let’s write my favorite film I haven’t seen yet.’ So I think it’s easy to get sort of bogged down in ‘how does this compare to the first one, how does that compare?’ When all is said and done, my next film, I am currently writing it and I’ll direct for Universal this year, I’m just trying to entertain myself again.”
Peele said this of his next film: “tonally it should resembleGet Out.” But rather than staying in the horror genre, Peele aims to direct a series of “social thrillers” under his first-look deal with Universal Pictures.Usis the first of Peele’s films with Universal after he signed with his Monkeypaw Productions last spring.
