Ep. 276: Interview With 'Get Out' Director Jordan Peele

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey sits down with writer-director Jordan Peele (of 'Key & Peele' fame) to discuss his new hit film, 'Get Out,' how and why he made it, and its overwhelmingly positive reception. Peele also talks about ideas for alternate scenes and endings as well as his reasoning behind some of the movie's most pivotal moments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Hello, and welcome to a special edition of the channel 33 podcast.
0:40.0	My name is Sean Fennessy, and I'm the editor and chief of the ringer.
0:42.8	Today I'm joined by a very special guest, Jordan Peel, who many of you probably know
0:46.4	as one half of Key and Peel, and is now the writer and director of one of the best and
0:50.6	most successful movies of the year.
0:52.5	It's called Get Out.
0:53.7	It's about a young African-American guy visiting his white girlfriend's parents for the first
0:58.0	time.
0:59.0	And in the movie, it's a comedy, it's a satire.
1:01.4	Jordan describes it as a social thriller in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and the Stepford
1:05.0	Wives.
1:06.0	Jordan, congratulations on Get Out and welcome to the show.
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