Tucked away in the Palisades, just off Pacific Coast Highway, is Lake Shrine, a 10-acre self-realization retreat with a hilltop temple, a lush meditation garden and a spring-fed pond, all blocked from the wind and city bustle by a wall of trees and greenery. Here, on this overcast February morning, sitting at the water’s edge as hummingbirds and butterflies flitter nearby, is Winston Duke, the hulking 6-foot-5, 230-pound actor who played M’Baku in Black Panther and who now stars in horror auteur Jordan Peele’s Get Out follow-up, Us, which premiered March 8 at the South by Southwest Film Festival and opens March 22. (“Fiercely scary,” declared The Hollywood Reporter.)
“When I’m in Los Angeles, it feels like things never stop moving,” says Duke, 32. “So I seek places of stillness,…