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Jordan Peele has been a notable director who is the creator of several remarkable movies. With several inspirations for the director, the Scarlett Johansson movie titledUnder the Skinwas an inspiration for the debutant director all those years back.
Most notably known for directing the 2017 movieGet Out,Jordan Peele stated that amongst the many horror movies that he has seen,Under the Skinhad a special influence on him. Praising director Jonathan Glazer for his aesthetics, Peele stated that everything about the film just felt right.
Jordan Peele Credits Scarlett Johansson’s Movie In Inspiring Him
During 2013, A24 was not a well-known company and had quietly released the 2013 movie titledUnder the Skin.WithScarlett Johanssonin the lead role,Under the Skinwent on to earn a meager $7.3 million at the box office.
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Despite earning so little, the film seemed to grab the minds of Jordan Peele who was on his way to becoming a great director back in 2013. As per theNopedirector,Under the Skinwas a movie that had these aesthetics that just resonated deeply with the tone of the movie. Praising the movie, Jordan Peele felt the need to ask Jonathan Glazer how did he manage to create such perfect effects and a perfect score forUnder the Skin.
“Under the Skin, for me, is a special film. It has one of those aesthetics that, as a filmmaker, you watch, and you’re like. ‘how did Jonathan Glazer even do that?’ Everything looks so specific; the photography is beautiful, and that movie has a perfect score.”
Since it was a game of ranking the best movies,Jordan PeeleselectedUnder the Skinfor a second time and stated that several visuals of the movie were so intense that he could watch it hundreds of times and not get bored.
“There are some things in that movie that I just feel like are so visually intense and captivating that it’s just what I feel I could watch a hundred times and never really get to the bottom of it. And I love that”
With Scarlett Johansson in the lead role, the movie earned a rating of 6.3/10 on IMDB but a strong rating of 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Scarlett Johansson Reveals She Auditioned ForGravity!
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In an exclusive interview with ET, Scarlett Johansson revealed that she had initially auditioned for the lead role in Alfonso Cuaron’s 2013 movieGravity.Stating that it didn’t go as planned, Johansson admitted that it was kind of the last straw that broke the camel’s hump.
“The first was Iron Man 2 and then the other one was Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. I had wanted that role so much. It was sort of the straw that broke the camel’s back. I felt really frustrated and hopeless. Like, ‘Am I doing the right job?'”
She further continued,
“I did a screen test for the movie Gravity, that Sandra Bullock is fantastic in, but I had to be in like the full whole space suit thing, and sort of pretend I was kind of like floating in space. Even though I was just sitting in a chair with a helmet on.”
With horrors and adventures,Under the Skinstarring Scarlett Johansson, andGravitystarring Sandra Bullock are available to stream on Max in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
