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CINEMA FEATURE visit stack.com.au to movies to make this movie,’” he says. Nope is set in a lonely gulch in inland California, where the scattered residents bear witness to a chilling discovery. Kaluuya and Keke Palmer play siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood, who have inherited a horse ranch from their industrylegend father, carrying the torch of his craft as animal wranglers for film and television. Finding a sibling bond came naturally to the actors. “That was the easiest part,” says Palmer. “We have a natural chemistry together and, for whatever reason, I just think we vibe out. I love picking on Daniel; he's the funnest person to try and get out of being calm, because he is so relaxed. I always like to just mess with him and I think it's the same way with Emerald and OJ,” she laughs. “I hated every single moment… but it was good,” deadpans Kaluuya. “I was aware of Keke before we worked together, so when Jordan mentioned she had the part, I was just happy that Keke was going to have a moment – I saw that coming. And that makes me happy when I see people that have ‘the thing’ and get the opportunity to show what they have.” Adjacent to the Haywood ranch sits Jupiter’s Claim, a family theme park and petting zoo predicated on the whitewashed history of the Yep. STACK chats with writer-director Jordan Peele California Gold Rush, owned by Ricky “Jupe” and the cast of his new sci-fi/horror thriller, Nope. Park (Steven Yeun), a former child star saddled with a tabloid-tragic backstory that he has spent Words Gill Pringle a lifetime trying to escape. “I think the scary part of it is, at some point, as you get deeper and deeper, ope reunites writer-director Jordan the separation between yourself and the Peele with Daniel Kaluuya, the star of character becomes less and less because his 2017 breakout horror hit Get Out. then you're hitting something so base The British actor blew the filmmaker away and fundamental, that you're like, ‘Is this by nailing an American accent for that film, me?’” muses Yeun. and for Nope, he became an accomplished “So it gets tricky that way, but it is really horse rider. nice when a character can be so full that Peele cracks a big smile when STACK way,” he says of Peele’s complex social asks how Kaluuya reacted when he learned thriller that unpacks the seeds of he would be spending most of Nope on violence, risk and opportunism horseback. that are inseparable “Not great!” he laughs. “But I've never from the romanticised for Nope, which is equal seen an actor work as hard as he did in getting history of the American parts horror, sci-fi, western, the horse skills together, and it's just wonderful West… and from show mystery, and social to watch his process, because from the first business itself. commentary. day I met him on Get Out, I said, ‘You know, Kaluuya may find himself “So many things. As I need that accent to be right’. And he goes, starring in a UFO film, but you can tell, it's quite full. I ‘I got you. I got you, man’, and I said, ‘I don't he knows exactly how he always look for something know if you’ve got me because you're not would react if he had a close that doesn't exist; for a film doing it yet!’ And he comes in, and ‘bam!’ like, encounter in real life. that I wish I could see for the flawless. DON'T “If it was aliens, I wouldn't first time. And in this case it was a “And so I had trust. He's like, ‘Yeah, I got M ISS go to them – I would be coolly walking truly horrifying UFO film, in which you, I'm gonna be a horse rider next time you away. Yeah, I mean, coolly getting a we are really able to be immersed see me,’ and that's basically what happened,” different Airbnb,” he laughs. into the situation, like some of my favourite says the Oscar-winning filmmaker. films. So that was the nugget. I was like, ‘I Peele doesn’t quite know where to begin gotta make this, in fact, I have a responsibility when we ask where he found the inspiration Nope is in cinemas on August 11 CLOSE ENCOUNTER N 10 AUGUST 2022 st214_010_CINEMA-Nope-PROOFED-AF.indd 1 jbhifi.com.au 25/7/2022 2:47 pm
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