The Yale-trained actor, best known as M’Baku in “Black Panther,” says the hotly anticipated film delves into “cultures of power.”
Winston Duke stars in “Us,” a horror film premiering Friday. The actor is best known for his role as M’Baku in “Black Panther.” By Helena Andrews-Dyer Helena Andrews-Dyer Columnist for The Reliable Source Email Bio Follow March 21 at 11:00 AM NEW YORK — Winston Duke is giving a 40-minute TED Talk about the invisible strings of power to an audience of one.
“I relish this opportunity,” Duke says, halfway through his oral argument about what “Us” is trying to teach its audience about the world. The hotly anticipated follow-up to Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning thriller “Get Out” is expected to be quite heady. Duke doesn’t just want to be a part of the inevitable think pieces, Twitter threads and roundtables about the film, almost a modern-day take on the French Revolution but with crazy clones.
He first came to this museum with his sister when he was a kid. He kept coming back again and again, enthralled by the planetarium permanent exhibit, which he says changed his life at 19. He was doing a big think then, as you do, about life and death and the meaning of it all when the vastness of the cosmos put everything into perspective.
“Am I working enough to sustain a life, to build a family, buy a home in this country? Am I doing enough?” he recalls asking himself.Self-definition, another theme threaded throughout “Us,” is a big deal to Duke, who has been defined thus far by his superhero breakthrough as M’Baku. Vanity Fair dubbed him “a royal Wakandan thirst trap.” BuzzFeed recently made him read aloud several “thirst tweets” , most of which are unprintable.
Duke emerges from the cafeteria. His first stop is a quaint, life-size diorama of Dutch settlers meeting Native Americans for the first time. Above the scene is a newly added dialogue box that reads, “The scene offers only stereotypical representations and ignores how complex and violent colonization was for native people.” Duke considers this for a moment before launching into a debate about Confederate statues.
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