💩 Actor Jordan Peele QUIT Acting After Being Asked To Play The Poop Emoji In 'The Emoji Movie'

Jordan Peele once revealed that being offered the role of “Poop” in The Emoji Movie was the moment he decided to quit acting.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Did you ever see the Emoji Film?

Speaker 1 (00:05):
No? I heard about the Emoji film, but I didn't
see the Emoji Film.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I thought it was a joke. I'm surprised. Look, my
kids aren't in that drop zone anymore. But it was
actually made and you know what it growth? This was
from I think it was twenty eighteen or something. It
grows over two hundred and seventeen million dollars worldwide.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yep, I reckon you could have featured in the Emoji film.
You do the crazy face, you know, the crazy walking.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, that's exact understoing the noise of it now, and
that's enough.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's exactly your face.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It won all the Razzie Awards for it won the
Razzie Award for Worst Picture, the Worst Director, and the
Worst Screenplay. So well, clean, clean, sweat. Congratulations. You want me
to read you? There's a reason I'm talking about it.
But what could possibly the synopsis be to want me
to read to you? The synopsis? I've just googled it.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hidden inside a smartphone, the bustling city of text Opolis
is home to all the emojis. Each emoji has only
one facial expression except for Gene, an exuberant emoji with
multiple expressions. Determined to become normal like the other emojis
he limited. That's the synopsis.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
He wants to be like everyone else.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
And I assume at the end of the movie they
say you're amazing as you are. I'm just guessing that's
how it goes. Spoiler alert, save yourself some money and
you don't have to see it. But I saw this
great thing. You know Jordan Peel. Yeah, he's Key and
Peele from Key and Peel, one of my favorite comedy duos. Ever.
You may have seen their stuff before. Here's a snippet

(01:28):
of Jordan Peele's work.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I've just been noticing that every time I leaves to
go out. The next time I open the computer, the
growse or history.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I think, So I just stop it right now.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think you set it up.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
You know him from that meme. There's a meme whenever
you Okay, So I've just said, yeah, Key and Peel.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
They're one of my favorite comedy duos. And if you
haven't seen their show, I haven't seen any of their
sketches pop up on your socials. You may have seen
the meme that features him where he just starts to sweat,
he gets more or more uncomfortable as a scenario with
his wife plays out, and at the end, it's just
water pouring from his head. This is the skitch.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I've just been noticing that.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Every time I leave to go out, the next time
I open the computer, the browser history has been cleared.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
H that's weird.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yesterday I went food shopping for like fifteen minutes. I
used the computer before I went to the store, and
when I came back, my history was gone, the cash
was cleared, and the cookies had been reset.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
I don't know. Maybe there's something wrong with the computer,
you know, and it's just one of those things whenever
it gets interrupted from the power source, it has to
reboot and it just totally wipes out the history.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Be honest, babe, it's porn, right, porn?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
What's oh? Pornography?

Speaker 3 (02:50):
No, it's okay if you look at porn. I assumed
you did, anyways, I mean every guy does. I'm perfectly
okay with that as long as it's not that weird stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Wow, that's with the sweat. Well.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
The reason I mentioned him and the emoji movie is
I recently came across this. This happened a couple of years ago.
But he said that that the Emoji movie stopped him
acting and he wasn't even in it, or regie what
he has said, The Emoji movie actually helped me quit acting.
I was offered the role of poop. He said, this

(03:25):
is true. I wouldn't make this up. I was like, well,
that's beeped up. I told my manager that's beeped up.
Let me sleep on it. I came back the next
day and said, what are they offering and they said, oh,
well they've already given it to Sir Patrick Studt And
I said, beep this and he's given up acting. If
you can't even get the poop, If you can't play poop,

(03:46):
what's the point of keeping going?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Who got egg planed? Who was it in plant? Sound Charlie?
She Charlie, she'd be egg plant, That's for sure.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
W'd be crazy.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
He face, that's you. I'm looking.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm waiting for the call.