Last month, comedian-turned-actor-turned director Jordan Peele announced that he was quitting acting, preferring instead to focus on his career behind the camera after enjoying huge critical success with his feature directorial debut Get Out.
Attending the Directors Guild of America Awards this past weekend, where he was honoured with the First Time Feature Award for Get Out, Peele explained one of the reasons why he decided to call time on acting: The Emoji Movie.
“I was offered the role of Poop – this is true. I would not make this up. I was offered the role of Poop; I was like, ‘That’s fucked up.’ I told my manager, ‘That’s fucked up, let me sleep on it.’ I came back the next day, I said, ‘Well, what are they offering?’ And they said, ‘Oh, well they’ve already given it to Sir Patrick Stewart.’ I was like, ‘Fuck this’… That’s a true story.”
Peele is set to contest the Best Director Oscar at the Academy Awards, where he is nominated alongside Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) and Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk). He is yet to announce his next directorial project.
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