Jordan Peele: Can Film Change Our Culture?

Oprah's Super Soul

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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For the first time, Oprah sits down with Jordan Peele, the funnyman-turned-screenwriter/producer/director, for a one-on-one conversation at the world-famous Apollo Theater in New York City. Jordan shares the stories behind his groundbreaking film "Get Out," which was nominated for four Oscars and has sparked a national conversation about race, becoming one of those rare films that has had a truly profound impact on our culture. Jordan is the first African-American filmmaker to be nominated for the Oscar trifecta of Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Motion Picture. Jordan says he spent seven years conceiving, crafting and writing "Get Out," adding, "It was the idea for designing my favorite movie that I'd ever seen." Jordan also reveals how he's been able to meet this moment, receive praise and keep his ego in check. In this special-edition podcast, you'll hear Oprah and Jordan's full interview, featuring more than 15 minutes of bonus content not included in Part 1 of the OWN special "Oprah at the Apollo."

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:24.1	Please welcome Jordan Beew!
0:31.1	First of all, I just got to say, I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you.
0:41.5	And the reason I am is because that was a bodacious thing. You wrote and directed and I just
0:51.0	think to have the courage, first of all, a lot of people have a vision and an idea, but
0:55.7	they have the courage to follow that through. And then to walk into a studio meeting and
1:00.8	say, this is the movie I want to do. Were you a little scarred?
1:06.4	I mean, it's so many years put into conceiving the movie. But I didn't necessarily ever
1:16.0	realize that it would actually ever get made.
1:18.3	So at the point when I pitched it and said, let's make this movie, yeah, it was kind of
1:23.1	like a, uh-oh. Now we're in. We're in.
1:28.2	So when you say it was years in conceiving it, I love this. I love the way writer's minds
1:33.1	work. Did you get little pieces of it and then write that down and then other pieces of
1:38.4	it and write that down?
1:39.6	Yeah, it was kind of like that. It was a hobby for me. It was this idea of designing
1:46.6	my favorite movie that I'd never seen before.
1:49.2	Yes. That is so interesting because I remember interviewing Toni Morrison years ago and
1:53.6	she said that she started writing because there wasn't a novel that she felt really
2:02.0	spoke to the African American experience in a way that she wanted to read. So she started
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