Pack away your red jumpsuit, set down that white bunny and return your golden scissors —Jordan Peeleis begging fans not to show him yourUscostumes.
“Now, in Halloween season, I’ve started receiving a lot of people in Tethered costumes, which, it doesn’t make me comfortable,” Peele, 40,toldVarietyon Sunday. “You know, I like the fact that the movie is happening, it’s a phenomenon, it’s resonating, it’s iconic — but, I don’t know, there’s something about … it’s like, they’re impersonating the stalkers and sending me stuff.”
The Oscar-winningGet Outscribe added, “I just feel like, just don’t go into that mindset.”
Jordan Peele.Kevin Winter/Getty
Kevin Winter/Getty; Universal / Everett
“She was essentially in character, at the very least in mood, on set at all times as Red, which was already pretty terrifying for me, and pretty magnificent to watch,” Peele said as Nyong’o stood beside him on the red carpet for the11th Annual Governors Awardsin Los Angeles.
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Nyong’o said the iconography ofUs— particularly a motif of the clock time 11:11 — has found its way into her life in other facets.
Even some celebrities opted forUsas their Halloween costumes this year. For their Halloween episode, the cast ofblack-ish, including leadsTracee Ellis RossandAnthony Anderson, dressed up in the full get-ups.
“Tethered. The Johnsons do it again. Shout out to @blackishabc hair, makeup, and wardrobe for killing the Halloween game,” Ross captioned an Instagrampostof her costars in the costumes.
Peele isn’t saying you should abandon your Tethered costume altogether, however — he just doesn’t want to trigger flashbacks to the experience he had creating the horror film.
“Don’t send me pictures of yourself dressed up as creepy characters,” he toldVariety. “I’m good.”
source: people.com
