Daniel Kaluuya's Get Out character will be memorialized as a statue in London: 'This is beyond imagining'

Get Out made Daniel Kaluuya a star, a milestone for the actor that's now being captured forever.

Kaluuya's character, Chris Washington, will be memorialized with a statue in Central London's Leicester Square. Kaluuya celebrated the news on his Instagram, sharing the shot from the film that will be rendered immortal (Kaluuya flying backward in slow motion into the Sunken Place). "Soooo wanted to tell you guys, I’m getting a statue in Leicester Square, Central London, the same place I used to eat my meal deal prawn cocktail crisps, in between auditions."

"I'll be real, this is beyond imagining," he wrote. "'Chris' in Get Out will be memorialized on the trail alongside characters like Batman, Harry Potter and Mary Poppins and the most special thing about all of this is that it’s been chosen by the people. I want to say thank you all for taking the time to vote for me. I really tell stories for you guys; whether you’re in a bouji cinema, snuck into a 2nd screening or just wanna watch something Friday eve after work, I really make things with you in mind. So to have this by you, means a lot to me."

Kaluuya's character was chosen via a poll of 5,000 British film fans and won 20 percent of the vote. The statue will be unveiled in October.

In addition to the characters listed by Kaluuya, Leicester Square's "Scenes in the Square" attraction features life-size renditions of Bugs Bunny, Paddington, Wonder Woman, Gene Kelly from Singin' in the Rain, Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean, and a render of Laurel and Hardy from 1929's Liberty.

"What an honor," Kaluuya signed off. "Thank you. See you at the Square."

"Scenes in the Square" was launched in 2020, and is navigable via a free audio walking companion featuring Paddington's Hugh Bonneville, Gene Kelly’s wife and biographer Patricia Ward Kelly, and TV presenter Alex Zane.

Where Laurel and Hardy represent the 1920s to the 1940s, Poppins the ’60s, Mr. Bean the ’90s, and so on, Kaluuya's Chris Washington was chosen, per Mark Williams, deputy chief executive for Heart of London Business Alliance, because he "points to a bright future for our trail, with Kaluuya as a chosen symbol of the future of entertainment."

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Get Out sent the careers of its star and its writer-director, Jordan Peele, into the stratosphere. Peele became the first Black screenwriter to take home the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script, and Kaluuya went on to take home his Oscar in 2021 for Judas and the Black Messiah. The pair reunited in 2022 for the acclaimed flying saucer flick Nope.