Get Out
Short description
Get Out follows Chris Washington, a Black photographer from New York, who travels with his white girlfriend Rose to spend a weekend with her parents at their isolated country estate. Rose's parents, Missy and Dean, welcome him with an eagerness that Chris initially takes for awkwardness over their daughter's interracial relationship. As the visit continues, unsettling details accumulate around the family's Black employees and the wider community, and Chris comes to suspect that the invitation was not what it seemed.
The film is Jordan Peele's debut as director, and the first entry in the filmography that continues with Us and Nope; he also wrote the screenplay and produced alongside Sean McKittrick and Jason Blum. Daniel Kaluuya plays Chris, with Allison Williams as Rose, Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford as her parents, Caleb Landry Jones as her brother Jeremy, and Marcus Henderson as Walter. It was made for about 5 million dollars and took roughly 255 million dollars worldwide.
On IMDb the film holds 7.8 out of 10 from around 810,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.6 out of 10 from more than 19,000 votes, indicating a wide and largely positive audience response. A critics' rating of 8.3 out of 10 from 403 reviews places it somewhat above those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director Jordan Peele once said that he was inspired to write the screenplay and shoot the film by George A. Romero's classic horror film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968).
- Jordan Peele became the first African American screenwriter, producer, and director to earn over $100 million for a debut film.
- In the initial version of the script, the ending was more bleak (Chris was supposed to be arrested for the murder of Rose and her family). But by the time of filming, Jordan Peele decided to make the ending more optimistic. He was prompted to do so by the numerous cases of African Americans being killed by police in the United States.
- Daniel Kaluuya received the role immediately after a successful audition. Director, screenwriter, and one of the producers, Jordan Peele, stated that Kaluuya performed the key scene where his character had to cry in five takes, and in each take he played it so perfectly that a tear always streamed down his cheek at exactly the same moment.
- Jordan Peele was inspired to write the screenplay by an Eddie Murphy sketch on a show, in which his character was preparing to meet his girlfriend's parents.
- Filming took 28 days.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
