Janelle Monáe and Jordan Peele have one thing particular cooking.
Talking with PEOPLE about her partnership with AMC as the network’s FearFest host for 2024, the actor-singer, 38, reveals she and Peele, 45, “have undoubtedly spoken about making [a] movie” collectively, as lately as this yr.
“We texted just a few months in the past, and he and I each stated we’ll make our film. So I feel it’ll occur. It is simply timing,” Monáe says.
It would not be the primary time they’ve been creatively linked. Monáe’s tune “I Like That,” from her 2018 album Dirty Computer, is on the soundtrack to Peele’s Lupita Nyong’o-led 2019 horror movie Us.
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Peele additionally directed Monáe on a photo shoot for W magazine in 2018, by which the Hidden Figures star stunningly channeled Hitchcockian model in quite a lot of menswear designs.
“Each time I see the pictures and when folks carry it to me, it simply screams so many various film concepts,” Monáe tells PEOPLE of that shoot. “So I am enthusiastic about when that point lastly occurs.”
Whereas she will’t tease something particular about their in-the-works movie (“I’ve discovered to guarantee that it is achieved earlier than you point out it,” she says), the “Lipstick Lover” singer raves that she and Oscar-winner Peele “love one another as creatives.”
“We love the horror style, we love the psychological-thriller style, and we will not wait to work with each other,” Monáe provides.
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Other than being a fan of horror, Monáe is not any stranger to being immersed in it for her work, in tasks like Antebellum (2020) and the TV sequence Homecoming.
A current favourite movie of hers within the style? Longlegs, which she says she was “impressed by the tone” of and “introduced one thing new to the horror panorama, to me.”
Monáe additionally praised the Osgood Perkins-directed movie’s “pacing,” in addition to the “unnerving” efficiency from Nicolas Cage, who performed the titular villain.
“He remodeled in a manner that I simply had by no means seen him,” she says, including of the film normally, “It was very disturbing. In the absolute best manner.”
The full schedule for AMC’s FearFest, operating throughout Oct. 31, is on the market at amc.com.