Jordan Peele Smoked Weed While Writing 'Get Out' Script

Smoking weed helped Jordan Peele write “Get Out.”

In his acceptance speech for best director at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards, Peele admitted to writing “Get out” while high, stating, “This project didn’t start as a statement, it began as me wanting to make a film in my favorite genre. And I sat down and I would smoke a little weed, and try and write a, you know, mind –bending horror film.

This isn’t the first time weed has sparked Peele’s creative juices. In the Comedy Central show “Key and Peele,” the quirky duo crafted a collection of sketches dedicated to the “Toked and Stoked.”

Though Peele usually takes a humorous tone with cannabis, he talks about wanting to touch on real issues with “Get Out.”

His acceptance speech went on to say, “I just followed the truth, and I realized that there are people who are locked up for smoking less weed than I was smoking when I wrote the movie. And so I wanted to deliver that truth.”

Peele and his partner in crime Keegan-Michael Key plan to reunite for the stop-motion Netflix movie “Wendell and Wild” — maybe weed will play a part in the success of that film as well.