“Then they had Samuel L. Jackson….My man had the
first purple lightsaber. Yeah. How you gonna give Mace Windu a grape-flavored
lightsaber?”—Jordan Peele, on the lack of black characters in the Star Wars saga, in Key and Peele, Season 3, Episode 10, “Black Ice,” original air date Nov. 20, 2013, directed by Peter
Atencio
This comment came a couple of years before John
Boyega and Lupita Nyong'o were cast in Star
Wars: The Force Awakens—but it’s still largely white “a long time ago in a
galaxy far, far away.”
As for Mr. Peele, congratulations on those three
Oscar nominations for Get Out. Clearly,
this is a fellow who not only can make fun of genre cinema, but make it work
for him…
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