48 Fun Facts About Get Out

Before making Get Out, its writer-director was best known for what?

Sketch comedy made his name on television; he has said that horror and comedy run on the same machinery of timing and surprise, and Get Out was his first film as director.

Who plays Chris Washington in Get Out?

Daniel Kaluuya, a Londoner playing an American, won the part after the director saw him in the British series Black Mirror; it became his breakthrough role.

Who plays Rose Armitage in Get Out?

Allison Williams, known for Girls and as television's Peter Pan, was cast precisely because audiences trusted her wholesome image; Get Out was her first feature film.

Which festival gave Get Out a surprise premiere in January 2017?

Sundance showed it unannounced, as a secret midnight screening; a month later it opened across North America and went straight to the top of the weekend box office.

What is Chris Washington's profession in Get Out?

Photographer, which is why Rod tells him to document what he sees; one picture he sends lets Rod name a man missing for months.

In Get Out, what is Rose's father Dean's profession?

Neurosurgeon is no idle detail: Dean performs the brain transplants at the heart of the family's scheme, while his wife, a psychiatrist, prepares the victims.

Who plays Dean Armitage in Get Out?

Bradley Whitford, the idealistic Josh Lyman of The West Wing, plays the genial father who, Rose promises, would have voted for Obama a third time: the liberal as the villain.

Who plays Missy Armitage in Get Out?

Catherine Keener plays the psychiatrist who puts Chris under hypnosis on his first night in the house, in a session he never agreed to.

In Get Out, what everyday sound does Missy use as a hypnotic trigger?

A spoon stirring a teacup: once the sound is planted, a single clink is enough to drop Chris as he runs for the door, and later the family simply play him a recording of it.

In Get Out, what does Missy call the dark void Chris's mind falls into?

The sunken place is Missy's own name for it, as Chris is later told; Peele has traced the image to the jolt of falling you feel as you drift off to sleep.

In Get Out, what habit is Missy's hypnosis supposedly meant to cure?

Smoking is the excuse: Rose keeps snatching Chris's cigarettes, her mother offers to help, and when the craving really has gone next morning he knows the hypnosis was no dream.

What did Get Out's Chris do the night his mother died?

Watched TV: he was 11 and frozen with fear, and that buried guilt is the lever Missy uses to put him under; it later makes him stop his escape for an injured woman.

In Get Out, what is the name of Rose Armitage's brother?

Jeremy, played by Caleb Landry Jones, sours the family dinner by admiring Chris's 'genetic make-up' and then trying to wrestle him into a headlock.

On the drive to her parents' house in Get Out, what does Rose's car hit?

A deer: its dying cries, voiced by Jordan Peele himself, hold Chris transfixed, and the officer who turns up asks to see his ID even though Rose was at the wheel.

In Get Out, what is the job of Chris's best friend, Rod Williams?

TSA officer Rod is the only person who works out what the Armitages are up to, and when he takes his theory to the police the detectives laugh him out of the room.

In Get Out, what sets off a party guest's sudden outburst?

A camera flash from Chris's phone breaks the spell for a moment, long enough for the man trapped inside to surface and warn him; Chris uses the same trick again in the finale.

In Get Out, Rod recognises a party guest as which missing Brooklyn man?

Andre Hayworth is the man snatched from a suburban street before the titles; Rod knew him from years back, so he knows the face at once.

Who plays the party guest who shouts 'Get out!' at Chris in Get Out?

LaKeith Stanfield, then best known as Darius in Atlanta, plays two men in one body: the relaxed Brooklynite of the opening scene and the stiff stranger who has replaced him.

In Get Out, what is the name of the Armitages' secret society?

The Order of the Coagula was founded by Rose's grandfather, Roman Armitage, who still greets each new victim in person, on a videotape played in the basement.

In Get Out, what does the art dealer Jim Hudson want from Chris?

His eyesight: the blind Hudson insists he could not care less what colour Chris is and wants only his eye, yet Peele has said that even this buyer is part of the system of racism.

Who plays the art dealer Jim Hudson in Get Out?

Stephen Root, loved as the stapler-hoarding Milton of Office Space, turns that mild comic manner chilling as the gallery owner who befriends Chris at the party.

In Get Out, whose brain is revealed to be inside the housekeeper, Georgina?

Rose's grandmother Marianne lives on in Georgina, which is why Dean shows off the room she works in with the words 'my mother loved her kitchen'; her husband Roman occupies Walter.

Who plays Georgina in Get Out?

Betty Gabriel in effect plays two people at once, a captive woman and the stranger in control of her body, which is what her smiling, tearful 'no, no, no' lets slip.

In Get Out, how do the party guests decide who gets Chris?

A silent auction: Dean takes the bids in hand signals beside a portrait of Chris, who is down by the lake at that moment telling Rose he wants to go home.

In Get Out, what does Rose drink while browsing for her next victim?

Milk, sipped through a straw between mouthfuls of dry cereal: Peele has said the wordless scene was not in the original plan and was dreamed up a couple of days before it was shot.

In Get Out, what does Chris use to block Missy's hypnotic trigger in the basement?

Cotton from the armchair is within reach only because Chris has clawed the leather open, the same nervous scratching he did as a boy on the night his mother died.

In Get Out, whose car does Chris flee the estate in?

The brother's Porsche is the same pale sports car seen stalking a man in the opening scene; Chris's getaway in it ends when he stops for a woman he has hit on the drive.

In Get Out's original ending, later reshot, what happened to Chris?

He was arrested by police beside the bodies and last seen in prison; after test screenings Peele reshot the ending so that the car that pulls up brings his friend, not the law.

Which 1975 film did Jordan Peele cite as an influence on Get Out's satirical premise?

The Stepford Wives, from Ira Levin's novel, has suburban husbands replacing their wives with docile copies; Get Out turns the same smiling, well-mannered menace on race.

Who introduced Peele to producer Sean McKittrick in 2013?

Peele pitched the story in New Orleans and wrote the first draft in about two months.

Which Black Mirror episode got its star cast as Chris in Get Out?

Fifteen Million Merits ends with its hero's furious, tearful rant on a talent-show stage, and that one scene convinced Peele; the 2011 episode had reached American viewers through Netflix.

Get Out won Best Feature and Best Director at which awards, held the day before the 2018 Oscars?

Independent Spirit Awards voters gave Get Out their two top prizes on 3 March 2018; the next night the Academy preferred The Shape of Water for Best Picture and its maker for director.

In which US state was Get Out filmed?

Alabama's Gulf Coast doubled for a very different part of the country: the Armitage house stands just south of Fairhope, on Mobile Bay, and the rest was shot in the city of Mobile.

Which Get Out actor won an MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Comedic Performance as Chris's friend Rod?

Lil Rel Howery, a Chicago stand-up, plays the friend nobody believes, whose wild theory about the Armitages turns out to be close to the truth; MTV gave him the prize in 2017.

Where is the Armitage family's estate in Get Out supposed to be?

Upstate New York was a deliberate choice: Peele kept the story out of the South so that its racism would wear a polite, liberal face instead of a familiar regional one.

Who composed the score for Get Out?

Michael Abels gave Peele what he asked for, a score led by Black voices with a blues undertow and none of horror's 'voodoo' clichés; the two reunited for Us and Nope.

In Get Out, what does the Swahili refrain 'Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga' mean?

Listen to your ancestors: Peele has said the voices are issuing a warning to Chris, the same 'get out!' the audience wants to shout at the screen.

Which Childish Gambino song plays over the opening of Get Out?

Redbone warns a lover to 'stay woke' to a cheating partner; Peele has said he chose it because, for a hero who must stay alert to survive, that phrase is what the film is about.

What was Get Out's production budget?

$4.5 million bought a worldwide gross of more than $250 million, over fifty times what the film cost to make.

How much did Get Out earn in its North American opening weekend?

$33 million, or $33.4 million over its first three days, when the trade papers had forecast between $18 million and $25 million for the low-budget debut.

Which film knocked Get Out to second place in its second weekend in North American cinemas?

Logan opened with $88.4 million, yet Get Out's takings fell only 15.4% from its first weekend, a far gentler slide than horror films usually suffer in week two.

Whose debut-film record did Get Out beat as highest-grossing original-screenplay debut?

The Blair Witch Project had held the record for two decades with $140.5 million.

Which Oscar did Get Out win at the 90th Academy Awards?

Best Original Screenplay went to a script Jordan Peele said he had abandoned about twenty times, convinced that no one would ever let him make it.

Get Out's one acting Oscar nomination was in which category?

Actor: the film's lead lost to Gary Oldman's Winston Churchill, but won the supporting prize three years later for Judas and the Black Messiah.

Entered as a comedy at the Golden Globes, Get Out lost Best Musical or Comedy to which film?

Lady Bird won; Peele had answered the comedy label by tweeting that 'Get Out is a documentary', though the studio's choice of the less crowded category had his approval.

In 2021, which body named Get Out's screenplay the greatest of the 21st century?

IndieWire had ranked it third best American screenplay of the century in 2018.

What is Jordan Peele's production company, a co-producer of Get Out?

Monkeypaw Productions cashed in within months of the hit: Universal signed the company to a first-look deal, staking its claim to Peele's next film, which became Us.

Which horror film did Jordan Peele screen among Get Out's inspirations?

Rosemary's Baby opened 'The Art of the Social Thriller', the Brooklyn series Peele programmed around his own film: his point was that in such stories the villain is society itself.