Before appearing in Black Panther, Widows, and Queen & Slim, among others, Daniel Kaluuya got his big break playing Chris Washington in Jordan Peele's thriller Get Out. However, Peele originally has his doubts about casting a British actor in a movie centreed around the American Black experience with racism. During a panel for the nominees of the BAFTA Rising Star Award in February 2018, actor Timothée Chalamet told Kaluuya he "thought it was fascinating when you said Jordan really wanted to cast you, but the only thing he was nervous about was you weren't American, and that you were British."
"Yeah, it was a lot of that, because I think in America, they don't really know stuff which happens outside of America," Kaluuya joked in response, later adding, "Basically, [Peele] didn't know the Black British experience. Because a lot of people don't. I think a lot of people in England don't. So then, he just asked me a couple of questions and I was like, 'Yeah, yeah, I know. I know what's happening.'"