- Okay, so "Get Out" was one of my,

that was like one of my favorite movies this year.

- Thank you, bro.

- And it's so exciting to do this with you because,

obviously everyone at this,

doing this is really top of their craft,

but, you know, everybody else, they're legends,

and we're like, you know, just starting out here,

we're just trying to figure it out.

So, what, I guess, questions you've been asked

a thousand times,

but what, how'd you hear about the project?

Was there an audition process?

How'd you get into it?

- It's a weird situation, cuz I

I did this show called "Black Mirror" back in England, 2011.

- Bing.

- Bing. Oh, you know?

- (laughs)

- Jesus.

See, this is surreal to me.

It's surreal to me that it still lives.

So, I did it in 2011.

Nothing really happened in England,

and then Netflix happened.

So Netflix happened like 2014, 2015

and then Americans started watching this show

that I did like three years before,

and then Jordan Peele watched it, and then he was,

he had this script and I read the script,

and I was like, "Yo, this script is insane," like...

- (laughs) Yeah, yeah.

- Are you allowed to do,

It just felt like it cost him something.

- Mm-hmm.

You know, I always think that's really exciting

to work with a filmmaker that's, like,

putting it all on the line, do you know what I mean?

And sayin' stuff that's not...

And then we Skyped and then later,

it took a couple months,

and then I had a film called "Sicario" coming out

- Right.

- And then in the press run I went to audition

for the role, and then I got it.

- And that was in London or L.A.?

- That was in L.A., that was in L.A.

So the premiere of "Sicario" was in New York,

then I went to L.A., I was like, I should just go.

- That's always a good feeling,

that always makes you feel like, you know,

you're in L.A., you're making moves, and...

- It's always good to,

I always feel like it's always good to be there.

You have to be there.

- In front of the person?

- Yeah, yeah.

- So you don't like self-tape's as much?

- I do. I got "Sicario" for self-tape.

- Okay.

- But, like, sometimes it's,

people have to see you and know you.

- No, it's true, and sometimes you do the self-tape

and there's a simple note a casting director's giving

everybody because everybody keeps making the same mistake.

- Yeah, yeah.

- If you do it at home.

Also, at home, you can control

too much sometimes, too, I find.

- Yeah. How did you get to "Call Me By Your Name"?

- So.

- Which is amazing.

- Hey, man.

- And you're amazing in it, bro. Honestly.

- And thank you so much, cuz you were at

the screening the other night.

- Yeah, yeah.

- It was cool seeing a bunch of older people,

none of whom I know, coming out of the screening room

and being like, "There's Daniel!"

- (laughs)

- We're gonna have this nice conversation soon.

Um. I was 17, and my agent Brian Swardstrom,

he represents Tilda Swinton, and she's the actress that's

the lead of a lot of his other movies,

like "I Am Love" and "A Bigger Splash"

and they had this project, they didn't have the script yet,

called "Call Me By Your Name",

and Luca was a producer on it at the time,

so Brian said, "Meet with this kid in New York,"

and we had a great meeting,

and very, very thankfully, Luca doesn't audition his actors,

he never has, so.

Then it was like a loose attachment thing,

but even at a young age, it became clear in show business,

you know, you become attached to these things

and most of them never come to any sort of fruition.

So, uh. And then it was just a waiting game, you know.

We thought maybe that summer it would happen,

and it didn't happen.

Maybe the summer after that it would happen,

and it didn't happen.

you start losing hope a little bit.

Then finally, like, three years into it,

then it, then it happened, so.

- Wow. So it was a three year process?

- Say it again?

- It was a three year process?

- It was like a three year, yeah.

I mean the, yeah, and in many ways,

it feels like the project of my youth

or something because it's been on the periphery for so long,

so, it really was.

And then we shot it, and now it's been like

a year-and-a-half process to get it out, so.

I'll be, you know, I'm gonna be 22 soon

and I heard about it when I was 17.

- So, like, in terms of like, him not auditioning people,

so how was that meeting, then?

what do you feel like he was trying to see out of you?

- Well, I like that.

And I have this impression with other people

I meet with sometimes, I'm curious if you have it too.

They're just, like, sussing you out,

and they're feeling out your vibe,

which is weird, because you don't want to be fake,

or... certainly there's a level of artificiality

to all of this, but, like, you wanna be real,

but then you see, like, when else do you eat with someone

and they're just like, like judging you, you know.

Making assumptions about you.

(laughs)

- (laughs) Dates.

- [Man] Elio, Oliver. Oliver, Elio.

- [Oliver] How you doing?

- [Elio] Nice to meet you. Elio.

- [Man] You must be exhausted.

- [Oliver] Little bit.

- [Man] (laughing)

Come, come, come.

- [Elio] May I bring your things up to your room?

- [Oliver] Uh, sure. Yeah.

- [Elio] My room?

- [Man] (laughs)

- Follow him.

- Okay, now, this is, again,

I'm sure you've gotten this a thousand times

but had you watched "Key and Peele" before,

were you a fan of it?

- Bro, I had watched, like,

we would be, I'd go out with my friends, yeah?

And we'd watch a film together

and they would go, "What should we do?"

Let's go on YouTube. - Watch "Key and Peele," yeah.

Just watch "Key and Peele." Just constantly "Key and Peele."

But that's what was amazing.

- Totally sober, too.

- That's what's so surreal.

It was more surreal that Jordan Peele knew who I was.

That was, like, blew my mind.

Cuz in my What'sApp groups, that's like all you talk about.

- And did he say, had he watched,

had he come across that episode of "Black Mirror"

on his own, was it a Casting Director that sent it to him?

- No, he just came across it.

But I think it was a time when a lot of people

in the industry were on a certain frequency,

was just watching "Black Mirror."

Then it became a thing.

- Huh.

- So it's before the latest season.

- Yeah, I was part of it becoming a thing.

I was not on the first wave of "Black Mirror."

- Nah, you probably were, bro, but it's like...

Before the new series came out,

it was like the older episodes.

- Right. Cause they re-, they uh.

- They did one with Joe Wright and Joe Wright directed it.

- Right, right.

Because they stopped it and brought it back, is that it?

- They brought it back, yeah, so it was like.

It's just, it's so surreal that, like,

I mean, a lot of jobs I've got recently

have been from stuff I did in '09 or 2010, 2011.

- That's crazy to me.

- So like, Ryan Coogler saw me in a short film

that I did in London.

Like a really low-key short film, but he saw it in Sundance.

- I thought short films got locked in a safe somewhere

for no one to see, ever.

- Listen, it's random.

So he just saw it and then he wanted me to do "Panther"

so then, like, it was just, loads of stuff

and then "Widows," Steve McQueen saw me in a play in 2010.

- That's so sick.

Now I don't know how much we're supposed to talk about

"Black Panther," or if we're supposed to be talking about

the other stuff, but how was that, man,

cause I can't wait to see that.

- It was great.

- That's one of the Marvel ones that's coming out

that's so exciting, man.

- It's crazy. It's just, it's just so crazy, bro.

I keep saying this, there was a time when Chad came out.

- He's so good, he's such a good actor.

- And he was in the waterfall scene and he came out,

I can't say what happens, but he was walking out into

the waterfall and I got chills.

- Were you in the scene or no?

- Huh? I was in the scene, yeah.

- Is there footage of you somewhere getting chills?

- Hmm. Look at these goosebumps.

- Hey, Daniel, let's go again.

- (laughs)

- Um, do the lines.

- Less chills. Less chills, Dan.

No, but it was like a massive set piece

and it was just so special to be a part of.

- Man, okay, and you have to cut me off

but I'm curious about all of this.

Now, with Jordan, like my experience,

cause I'm a huge "Key and Peele" fan,

now I know he's like the brilliant auteur

that made "Get Out."

Before, if I had read it,

I'm sure on the page it was already, like,

whoa, this is gonna be an amazing thing,

but it's just a different world.

I'm sure you've heard this a thousand times,

so what was like the moment, maybe it was in a Skype,

maybe you were hanging out with him,

maybe it was on set when you thought, wow, you know,

this guy is actually, like, a real,

really amazing filmmaker?

- I saw it on the page, man.

I saw it on, like, the first line.

Cuz I read scripts for fun.

- Oh really?

- Like, I just like, find my favorite films and read them.

- What, really?

- Cause it's fun.

- Dude, you're so...

- It's like, I wanna read "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

cuz it's fun, you know.

- I'm stealing that.

That's such, like, a good actor thing.

- Yeah, it just helps you -

- Doesn't it give you anxiety?

- What?

- Doesn't it make you feel, like,

oh man, these movies are so good.

- No, it just makes you, like,

I wanna know why I like something.

- Yeah, okay.

- So then, I'm more informed in

why I wanna say no to something,

I wanna say yes to something.

So a lot of the time it's just,