Keke Palmer Shares Her Very Confused First Reaction To Nope Script
Keke Palmer explains how she reacted when she first read the script for Nope. Nope is the third feature from rising horror director Jordan Peele. Following his success with Get Out and Us, Peele joins up again the former's star, Daniel Kaluuya, along with Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, and Barbie Ferreira to tackle a more supernaturally inspired plotline.
Though some of the details of Nope are now known, including the confirmation of an alien presence, for a while audiences were left completely in the dark about the story specifics. The first trailer was eerie but vague, not directly revealing the UFO. Subsequently, the marketing team released several cryptic Nope posters, including motion posters wherein the Nope cast looked up to some threatening sound in the sky. Even with more details available about Nope now, there are still elements left as a surprise, which shall be discovered soon as the film releases wide later this week.
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It now appears that even the Nope cast felt some confusion at first, according to THR. At Nope’s premiere in Los Angeles, Palmer reveals that upon her first read of the script, she was not exactly sure what to think. With Peele’s films, she claims, one “can never really watch any of his stuff on the surface.” Rather, it takes a second viewing, or in Palmer’s case a second read, to understand the main themes and his intentions for the story, as was the case with Nope. Check out the full quote from Palmer:
I just thought to myself, ‘What? So what’s he saying, for real?' With Jordan, you can never really watch any of his stuff on the surface, but that first watch always is a little surface because you
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