This is on the Media's Midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

When Jordan Peel's horror film Get Out hit theaters in 2017,

it was a critical success and an unexpected blockbuster.

The movie follows a black man named Chris, played by Daniel Calluga,

who visits his white girlfriend's eager parents in the country.

By the way, I would have voted for Obama for a third term

if I could best president in my lifetime hands down.

But soon, Chris senses that the Armatage family is not what it seems.

Plus, the other black people he encounters act strangely.

Spoilers ahead.

Slowly, we learn that the armatages are part of a cult of aging,

affluent white people who hijack and inject themselves into young black bodies.

Their victims are still conscious, but trapped in the sunken place,

unable to change their fate.

In the year since Get Out's release, Peel's work has been credited for jump-starting

a renaissance of the black horror genre, critics cheered the performance of the entire cast.

But for many, one in particular stood out.

Betty Gabriel played Georgina the Maid, whose body was possessed by the Armatage's matriarch.

In that sense, Gabriel played two characters at once.

I owe you an apology.

How rude of me to have touched your belongings without asking.

I can assure you there was no funny business.

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