Yahoo Lifestyle Janelle Monáe and Jordan Peele Have 'Spoken About' Making a Movie Together: 'It Will Happen' (Exclusive)
"We texted a few months ago, and he and I both said we're going to make our movie. So I think it will happen," says Janelle Monáe, AMC FearFest host
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Janelle Monáe in Beverly Hills, California, on April 9, 2024; Jordan Peele in London on March 25, 2024Janelle Monáe and Jordan Peele have something special cooking.
Speaking with PEOPLE about her partnership with AMC as the network's FearFest host for 2024, the actor-singer, 38, reveals she and Peele, 45, "have definitely spoken about making [a] film" together, as recently as this year.
"We texted a few months ago, and he and I both said we're going to make our movie. So I think it will happen. It's just timing," Monáe says.
It wouldn't be the first time they have been creatively linked. Monáe's song "I Like That," from her 2018 album Dirty Computer, is on the soundtrack to Peele's Lupita Nyong'o-led 2019 horror film Us.
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Janelle Monáe at a screening of Jordan Peele's Us in West Hollywood, California, on March 8, 2019Peele also directed Monáe on a photo shoot for W magazine in 2018, in which the Hidden Figures star stunningly channeled Hitchcockian style in a variety of menswear designs.
"Every time I see the photos and when people bring it to me, it just screams so many different movie ideas," Monáe tells PEOPLE of that shoot. "So I'm excited about when that time finally happens."
While she can't tease anything specific about their in-the-works film ("I've learned to make sure that it's done before you mention it," she says), the "Lipstick Lover" singer raves that she and Oscar-winner Peele "love each other as creatives."
"We love the horror genre, we love the psychological-thriller genre, and we can't wait to work with one another," Monáe adds.
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Janelle Monáe hosts and stars in the trailer for AMC's FearFestAside from being a fan of horror, Monáe is no stranger to being immersed in it for her work, in projects like Antebellum (2020) and the TV series Homecoming.
A recent favorite film of hers in the genre? Longlegs, which she says she was "impressed by the tone" of and "brought something new to the horror landscape, to me."
Monáe also praised the Osgood Perkins-directed film's "pacing," as well as the "unnerving" performance from Nicolas Cage, who played the titular villain.
"He transformed in a way that I just had never seen him," she says, adding of the movie in general, "It was very disturbing. In the best possible way."
The full schedule for AMC's FearFest, running all the way through Oct. 31, is available at amc.com.
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