Oscar Winner Daniel Kaluuya and Tyriq Withers Stranded at Eugene Airport: Their Interview During the Nationwide Ground Stop Goes Viral
On November 13, as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a nationwide ground stop, Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya and actor Tyriq Withers were among the passengers stranded at Eugene Airport in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon. According to the local newspaper the Register-Guard, the two were headed back to Los Angeles and had already boarded their plane before the grounding left them waiting at the airport; footage of a local TV interview with them at the airport then spread widely on social media, with one Instagram repost drawing about 45,000 likes.
According to the Register-Guard, Eugene TV station KVAL interviewed the actors at the airport. They told KVAL they were headed back to Los Angeles and had boarded the plane before the ground stop was issued. The FAA's nationwide ground stop lasted about four hours and was lifted at around 5:15 p.m. that day. Why Withers and Kaluuya were in Eugene is not clear, and the report did not say.
The two also share a connection through director Jordan Peele. Kaluuya, an English actor, writer and producer, earned a best actor Oscar nomination for Peele's Get Out and won the Oscar for best supporting actor in 2021 for playing Black Panther Party Illinois chapter chairman Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah. Withers launched his acting career in 2021, guest-starred on Atlanta, and appeared in the 2025 films I Know What You Did Last Summer and the Peele-produced psychological thriller Him; he has leading roles in this year's Reminders of Him and the forthcoming rom-com Love Love.
According to the paper, Withers had previously named Kaluuya as someone he would like to work with, in a Boardroom interview posted to TikTok. This time the two appeared together not on a film set but in a local-news interview at Eugene Airport. KVAL posted the interview as a short video, and the clip was then widely reshared on Instagram and other platforms.
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Source: Register-Guard
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Photo: 资料图：演员Tyriq Withers在2026年WWD Style Awards活动上（Kevin Paul摄，CC BY 4.0，经Wikimedia Commons），版面图为等比适配加模糊底衬1600×900、人物头部完整，非尤金机场现场画面。/ File photo: Actor Tyriq Withers at the 2026 WWD Style Awards (photo by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons), presented in a 1600x900 blurred-fill layout with his head kept whole; not an image from Eugene Airport.
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