Winston Duke on working with Jordan Peele to create his character in ‘Us’
We had conversations about changing how we look at masculinity in film; taking something that feels incredibly familiar — like the sitcom dad, and to some degree, these respectability politics performances — and turning it into something that says something.
That character who doesn’t listen, is that really the all-american dad? The father who doesn’t listen, the husband who isn’t really a partner, is that the all-american dad?
