Daniel Kaluuya forced to overcome his PTSD for Jordan Peele’s new horror Nope-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya has revealed he had to ‘get over his PTSD’ in preparation for his role in Jordan Peele’s new horror film Nope.

The Oscar-winning auteur Peele, who was also behind Get Out and Us, has created another horror that has fans waiting on the edge of their seat, however, preparation for Daniel’s lead role proved more difficult than anticipated.

After what seem to be alien objects fall from the sky into their ranch and kill their father, two siblings (played by Daniel and Keke Palmer) attempt to capture video evidence of the UFOs.

As multiple horses feature throughout the film, the cast had to practice with horse-riding, but for Daniel, this meant overcoming his PTSD.

Speaking to Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas on The One Show, Daniel recalled: ‘I had a bad accident a few years ago on a horse riding job, and then I had three and a half weeks to prepare for this role.

‘So I had a week to get over my PTSD in order to get ready and get good at horse riding.

Daniel recalled overcoming his PTSD to prepare for his new role (Picture: AP)

‘What I realised is that it was a way to get through to the character,’ he added, highlighting that his character in the film, OJ, is ‘very still.’

‘As I was getting better at riding, I was getting closer to OJ as a character,’ Daniel continued.

Daniel stars alongside Keke Palmer in Jordan Peele’s new horror (Picture: AP)

Oscar-winning Peele (R) is behind fan-favourite horrors Get Out and Us (Picture: AP)

‘There was not enough time! On Sundays and days off I would go and do horse riding again, I would do trail rides with friends, my life was just horses, I had to cram it.’

Daniel continued: ‘It’s like you want to look at it and go, “He knows horses, he has a connection,” so on Saturday mornings I would go and clean the stalls, do everything that they would do, give them medicine, because he would do that.

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‘I want to be comfortable with the horses, because there’s scenes where I talk with the horse,’ he added, explaining that the horses ‘know if you’re scared.’

He jokingly added: ‘If the camera picks it up, they’re gonna be like “Oh he’s a chancer!”‘

The One Show is available to watch on BBCiPlayer.

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