See Jordan Peele as Beetlejuice, a poker table in ambitious childhood Halloween costumes: ‘I got stuck in the stairwell of my home’
The "Get Out" filmmaker, who shared the photos with Jimmy Fallon, also dressed up as "baby Forest Whitaker."
Don't expect to find horror auteur Jordan Peele's childhood Halloween costumes in the aisles of Spirit Halloween.
The filmmaker recently stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and brought along photos of past Halloween costumes, each all the more niche than the last for a young boy. "I was the Halloween man when I was a kid," said Peele.
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One year, Peele dressed as a poker table, complete with a plate of pretzels on his hand and beer cans strewn atop. "I got stuck in the stairwell of my home trying to get out to trick-or-treat," he shared. Another year, Peele dressed as a half-devil, half-angel, with one half of his face painted white, and the other red.
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"That's a complicated costume," Fallon observed.
Peele quipped, "Yeah, when your kid wants to dress like this, you know you have problems on your hand. A lot of nuance."
Less niche is the year Peele dressed as Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice, which he noted was at a time when they did not carry the iconic pinstripe suit or kooky hair in stores just yet. "You had to find stuff in the garbage," Peele said of his commitment to the costume.
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Perhaps the most niche of all is a recent costume from a few years ago, when Peele dressed as "baby Forest Whitaker." "People would get scared," he said.
The filmmaker behind such horror hits as Get Out and Us is currently promoting his reboot of the early 2000s Syfy comedy horror reality show Scare Tactics, which thrusts unsuspecting victims into elaborately staged situations that exploit their wildest fears. Peele executive produces the reboot now on USA Network, which kicked off just last week with a premiere that featured the birth of a fake demon baby.
Speaking with Fallon, Peele recalled watching the original series in its heyday and shared that it taught him about the psychology of fear. "It's hard to write a horror script because you're always putting your main character in a situation that most people would just up and leave," said Peele. "It's hard to understand why people would keep themselves in a scary situation. Scare Tactics, everyday I would just watch it and you see how real people will justify staying in really creepy situations, and it's so fun."
For more from Peele, watch his interview in full above.
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