We would totally do this if we could get away with it.
Jordan Peele, whose movie Get Out has been 2017’s biggest surprise hit horror movie, churning out over $250 million at the box office on a $4.5 million budget, surprised a group of students at UCLA yesterday by crashing their class. The class, which was called Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic, was inspired by his film.
The filmmaker snuck into the back row while they were screening a scene from his movie and, according to author and professor Tananarive Due, he then raised his hand.
Today we snuck @JordanPeele into a back row while I was screening a scene from Get Out in my #blackhorror class. Then he raised his hand. pic.twitter.com/drXJX5mXcz
— Tananarive Due (@TananariveDue) October 12, 2017
Me: "What do you think the director was trying to say about the coveting of black bodies?"
*@JordanPeele raises hand*
Me: "You in the back."— Tananarive Due (@TananariveDue) October 13, 2017
Recreation of my students' reactions as @JordanPeele walked to the front of the #blackhorror class to field questions. pic.twitter.com/oBfvyiELQo
— Tananarive Due (@TananariveDue) October 12, 2017
And the class went wild. I'm still in shock that this happened! https://t.co/3wuCWehe3A
— Ashlee Penn (@_AshleePenn) October 12, 2017
There's a #blackhorror class at UCLA?? I think I need another degree.
— D-Dub (@silkyd67) October 12, 2017
Shoutout to @JordanPeele for coming to my Black Horror Aesthetic class and lecturing us on his movie #GetOut ✊� pic.twitter.com/P9P7aRGoV3
— Chef Jay (@Dj_Odyssey_) October 12, 2017
.@JordanPeele in today's #BlackHorror class at @UCLA on The Sunken Place: "I realized it was the prison industrial complex." So many lives. pic.twitter.com/mDOL7a9JIK
— Tananarive Due (@TananariveDue) October 12, 2017
@JordanPeele at @UCLA today visiting students in @TananariveDue's course, “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic.” pic.twitter.com/NbkKtZyixs
— UCLA Dept. of Af Am (@AfAmUcla) October 12, 2017
"It's the entire system that keeps us down, external and internal." --@JordanPeele on The Sunken Place in today's #BlackHorror class. pic.twitter.com/wP4iicQhmz
— Tananarive Due (@TananariveDue) October 12, 2017
The Sunken Place means we're marginalized. No matter how hard we scream, the system silences us.
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 17, 2017
we really have a class at UCLA about Get Out & jordan peele really showed up today woooow amazing
— danielle (@daniellemunguia) October 12, 2017
OMG. I need a film school do over. None of my professors were ever this cool/smart/engaging/woke. Give this woman all the tuition $$.
— noor (@bintflint) October 13, 2017
The one day I skip class https://t.co/sH4BS3ELUM
— Burkan Aranki (@burkwild) October 12, 2017
That was fun. https://t.co/OKhrKjGGfN
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) October 12, 2017
