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Not only is Keke Palmer known for her TV and movie roles, but she's also become the subject of a number of memes. Here she breaks down such memorable moments as her Met Gala interaction with Megan Thee Stallion, not being able to recognize Dick Cheney while strapped to a lie detector, and singing the famous 'Wicked' riff at the NAACP Image Awards. She also discusses working with Jennifer Lopez in 'Hustlers', her admiration of Jamie Lee Curtis and teases her new film 'I Love Boosters' directed by Boots Riley.
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00:00It was in the movie.
00:01I gotta think about my whole arsenal of films.
00:04Oh, shit, I thought I had a .
00:07You know, it's your girl.
00:16You act like we're in Beverly Hills or something, girl.
00:18You in the hood, too.
00:20This is one of them days.
00:21Easily, I knew this, because it's the most,
00:23it's like at the top of my brain.
00:25You act like we in Beverly Hills or somewhere, girl.
00:27You in the hood, too.
00:28This was a crazy scene.
00:29Shooting this scene was nuts,
00:30because we were doing a lot of improv.
00:32So it was just like, every take was 100% different.
00:36There were certain things that stayed that we repeated.
00:38This line was something like that,
00:40because you know, you always go to these places
00:41and they trying to tell you about yourself,
00:43like they up here in the damn queendom.
00:45You know, and it's like, you struggling as well.
00:47You know, you sometimes gotta call people out like that.
00:49Yes, there's definitely a number two in the works.
00:52I can't tell you too much about it,
00:53but just know we're looking for more gags and goops.
00:56Oh, oh, oh, I know it ain't,
00:58I know it ain't the style.
00:59You know it's your girl.
01:01You know it's your girl.
01:01Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:03I know it ain't, I know it ain't the style.
01:05Yeah.
01:06You know it's your girl.
01:08I love that y'all put this on here,
01:09because I thought this was just like about movies
01:11and TV shows that I've done,
01:12but memes have become like TV shows and movies to me as well,
01:17because I don't even know how these moments get quotable,
01:19but it's just so, it's so kitschy and cute to me,
01:22and it's fun.
01:23I can't tell you what was happening that day
01:24other than that your girl was trying to survive.
01:26It was a lot going on.
01:27We was at the Met Gala.
01:28You know, people were talking, screaming.
01:30They're in my ear with the IFB telling me we've missed it.
01:33We got to move on.
01:34We got to go here, there.
01:35I'm trying to keep my face happy and cool and fresh,
01:37but make sure I get the next guest,
01:39so then it becomes, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you know what I mean?
01:42Because I was trying to like maintain the moment.
01:45Sometimes I don't know when a moment of mine has gone viral.
01:47Like a friend, my friends usually would tell me,
01:49I don't know, maybe I'm not clicking my own videos enough
01:52for it to be going off for me, but every now and then I'll see something happen
01:55because my friend will send it to me and she'll be like,
01:57girl, did you see this?
01:58You know what I mean?
01:59And I'm like, oh, that's so crazy.
02:00That's so cool.
02:01And honestly, I just think it's sweet.
02:03When you go viral, which by the way, it could go good or crazy.
02:07You never know.
02:08But it usually means that people are relating to you in some way.
02:11You know, they feel seen, you know, by you in some way
02:14or they just thought it was funny.
02:16And I think, you know, that's good.
02:18I love whenever I could be a part of bringing someone joy
02:20or, you know, laughing at me, with me.
02:23It's all good either way, you know?
02:25You know what?
02:25I have not seen Megan since that day.
02:28Could you guys believe that?
02:29We've made this moment together, you know?
02:32And it was like, you're my girl, you're my girl.
02:33And I have not seen her.
02:34But all I do know is her and that man look good together.
02:37I love love for others because it's been a long time.
02:42We're not going to kill them, are we?
02:45We're not going to kill them, are we?
02:47When did I ever have somebody that would need to be murdered?
02:49Hmm.
02:50This is very interesting.
02:52We're not going to kill them.
02:52I got to think about my whole arsenal of films.
02:55When did I ever possibly kill somebody?
02:57We're not going to kill them, are we?
02:58How did I say it?
02:59We ain't going to kill them, are we?
03:00That's the thing about me.
03:01I could have been doing a comedy.
03:03I could have been doing a horror movie.
03:04I could have been doing a drama.
03:05We're not going to kill them, are we?
03:06Like, what did I do?
03:08What did I do that would have somebody killed?
03:10Maybe this was Scream?
03:11What did it happen to the Scream franchise?
03:13Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I know what it was.
03:15It was actually horror comedy.
03:17It was Scream Queens.
03:18Oh, shit, I thought I had it.
03:23Oh, hustlers.
03:24We're not going to kill them, are we?
03:26Oh, yeah.
03:28That scene, that scene.
03:30When I was like, I got to get out of Dodge
03:31because I can't be here with y'all.
03:34I'm going to go to jail.
03:35We're not going to kill them, are we?
03:37This was so much fun.
03:38Also, improv stuff, a lot of fun doing hustlers.
03:41Like, shout out to my girl, J-Lo.
03:42She's going to always be my girl.
03:44And we had such a good time filming this movie.
03:47I just remember being in New York.
03:48It was just such a fabulous, like, experience.
03:52First of all, I've always been a huge fan of Jennifer Lopez.
03:54And then Lorena Scafaria, she's the director.
03:56She was so great when I met her.
03:58And she really liked a lot of my improv work.
04:00And some have just, like, seen me even, like, on late night shows.
04:03So I feel like she really understood, like, my voice.
04:06And so I was excited at the opportunity to be able to, again,
04:09work in the traditional landscape using some of those things
04:12that I had been working and curating on my own
04:14outside of the traditional system, you know what I mean?
04:16Especially coming from being a kid entertainer
04:18and then growing up in my adult career
04:20and wondering, like, where, you know,
04:22what work was most inspiring to me.
04:24This was, like, a fun way to work with other women, like,
04:28and just, like, have fun, improv.
04:30I remember working with Lily Reinhardt.
04:32She's still, like, just so awesome.
04:34It was great working with her and just all the girls
04:37coming together and having those crazy scenes
04:39where we were, like, drugging these dudes.
04:41It's crazy that we call that movie fun.
04:42It was kind of scandalous.
04:44It's always cool when you can get a group of women together
04:46and kind of do this heist type of situation.
04:48I think the last time that we've seen an ensemble
04:51like the one with myself and Taylor Page and Naomi Aki
04:54in this upcoming movie with Boots, I Love Boosters,
04:57was, like, maybe, like, set it off.
04:58But it was so much darker in terms of tone and vibe.
05:02And so I think we have this ensemble situation
05:04where these women are fighting against the system
05:06in I Love Boosters,
05:07but we have this whimsical, fun, kind of flamboyant nature
05:10that only somebody like Boots Riley could bring to it
05:13that I think feels a little bit more hopeful to me.
05:15I think, you know, a lot of themes, heavy themes,
05:17which you can always expect from Boots,
05:19like, you know, commentary on just, like, consumerism
05:22and all the things that we're dealing with.
05:23But the way that it metabolizes in the film, I think,
05:27is, for me, reading it and getting a chance
05:30to be a part of it, it just felt like, I don't know,
05:33it's just like, I don't know how he's able
05:34to put all those flavors together to make one good soup,
05:37but I'm excited for you to check it out and see.
05:41Bitch, I'm about to smack you so hard,
05:42your tampons gonna pop out.
05:44This is in the middle of New Orleans
05:46shooting Scream Queens, baby.
05:47This is good old Zayde Williams, okay?
05:49Bitch, I'm about to smack you so hard,
05:51your tampons gonna pop out.
05:52This show was so satirical.
05:55I almost feel like, I don't know that everybody
05:56really got the vibe when it was out.
05:59I think now, people appreciate the tone for what it was.
06:02But obviously, anybody that's a Ryan Murphy fan
06:04understands that a lot of times, you know,
06:06it's, everything's not what it seems.
06:08It's very ironic, a lot of his stuff.
06:09And I think Scream Queens was right in that bag.
06:12This Zayde Williams character,
06:14I didn't know where she was going in the series.
06:15Like, I didn't know what her storyline was gonna be
06:17because they was always withholding every episode.
06:20We never knew if we were gonna die,
06:21if we were gonna live.
06:22But I'm like, if y'all let my black ass die,
06:24then y'all are done.
06:25So I knew I had to make it to the end of the season
06:27just for the political purposes alone.
06:31Anyhow, the best Scream Queen we already know
06:34is Jamie Lee Curtis.
06:36First of all, she comes from a lineage of Scream Queens.
06:38You cannot get away from her mother.
06:40I mean, come on, slanko.
06:42All I'm saying is Jamie Lee Curtis cannot be undone.
06:48I love Jamie too much.
06:50And by the way, the body is banging.
06:51Have y'all realized?
06:53Yeah, she's hot too.
06:55Okay, I like hanging by my tail.
06:57And if you geniuses are normal,
06:59this species is gonna end up extinct.
07:01Okay, I know this just by context clues alone.
07:03It must be Ice Age.
07:05It has to be because she was a mammoth
07:07and they definitely did go extinct.
07:09I like hanging by my tail.
07:11And if you geniuses are normal,
07:12the species is gonna end up extinct.
07:14This was like one of the first
07:16kind of big cartoon franchises I had ever done.
07:19And this was cool because I got to do it with Queen Latifah.
07:22She played my mom.
07:24Obviously we didn't get to work together in person,
07:26but I had worked with her in person as a kid.
07:29And then even again, after that,
07:30I think she and I were both doing Joyful Noise
07:32while also doing Ice Age at the same time.
07:35Honestly, doing voiceover work
07:37is some of the hardest things that you can do.
07:39And let me be clear, it's fun, it's chill.
07:42You don't have to do hair and makeup.
07:43So there are a lot of great pluses.
07:45But when he gets to do those efforts,
07:47oh my gosh, they're like,
07:49so you're rolling down a cliff and then you hit a bump.
07:52Then you go flying up into the air
07:53and then water splashes on you.
07:55You start laughing, but then you cry.
07:57And so you're in there like,
07:58oh, stop.
08:02And it's like, why did I have to do all that?
08:03And then they show you like this claymation
08:05and it's like, what the hell am I looking at?
08:07So your imagination is very much needed
08:09for animation in a major way.
08:13Oh yeah, I didn't think I was going to win
08:15because, whoa!
08:18This is me winning the NAACP Entertainer of Year Award
08:24against a few really awesome people, by the way.
08:27But I was specifically pointing this towards Cynthia Erivo
08:30because I lived for her performance in Wicked.
08:33I didn't think I was going to win
08:35because, whoa, whoa, whoa!
08:40Honestly, I might get got by saying this,
08:43but I never saw it on Broadway, which is like sad.
08:46You know what I mean?
08:46It sucks, it stinks.
08:48But I got to see it in the movie
08:50and I just loved it, you know what I mean?
08:53I just loved it.
08:54Like, it was just really empowering.
08:56It was very whimsical, magical, vibed out.
08:59And yeah, I just had to show that lady some love.
09:02Cynthia deserved it because she did a great role in that.
09:05And I also liked her in Harriet Tubman.
09:06She played that role good, too.
09:08It was very...
09:10I feel like it was funny
09:11because around the time that the movie came out,
09:13I feel like everybody was doing the riff.
09:14When you look at the end of that moment
09:16when she's out there and she's like,
09:18no one's going to bring me down.
09:20Like, it just was really...
09:22It felt like...
09:25I felt it like a...
09:27in my soul.
09:29And so, yeah, I just was doing it in my life.
09:31Like, it got to the point where even my son
09:32started trying to do it with me.
09:33He was like...
09:35Like, it's so cute.
09:38Okay.
09:38I hope I don't sound ridiculous.
09:40I don't know who this man is.
09:43This quote comes from my lie detector test
09:45with Vanity Fair, where I said,
09:47sorry to this man, you know?
09:49I didn't know who this is.
09:49I hope, you know, keep walking down the street,
09:51I wouldn't know a thing.
09:51I hope I don't sound ridiculous.
09:52I don't know who this man is.
09:54This will forever be one of the most,
09:57like, question mark, question mark, question mark
09:59pop culture moments for me.
10:01Meme culture, baby, for me,
10:02even aside from me being, like, a meme person
10:05or a person that is memed,
10:07I've always loved memes.
10:08I feel like we'll have, you know, schools and stuff.
10:10Like, we'll have a class on it in pop culture
10:12at some point, or just media literacy at some point.
10:15It really, like, not only represents, like,
10:18a moment or something that's funny,
10:20but, like, culture at that moment in time.
10:22Like, what was happening in the zeitgeist?
10:24And so, I don't know, it's just so cool to me.
10:26Like, I love memes, and so the fact that I get to be a meme
10:29is like, hey, I live for it, you know what I'm saying?
10:33Yes, I definitely know who that man is.
10:36It was interesting.
10:40I'm naturally inquisitive.
10:43No idea where I said that, but this is 100% true.
10:46I am such a why, why, why, why, why, why, why human being.
10:50I always have a bunch of questions.
10:52Sorry to my parents.
10:53From 20 years ago.
10:5620 years ago, where did I say I'm naturally inquisitive?
10:58Who did I say it to?
11:02It was in the movie.
11:04I, oh yeah, in the movie, I think I said it to the doctor.
11:07I was like, I'm naturally inquisitive.
11:08I was being, like, smart-alecky or whatever like that.
11:11That's crazy.
11:12Oh, Akeelah and the B, I'm naturally inquisitive.
11:15Wonderful time.
11:16Also, crazily enough, I was doing an interview
11:19in the movie with Akeelah and the B with Lauren Sanchez,
11:21who's now with Jeff Bezos.
11:23We tight, girl.
11:24Give me some money.
11:26Anyway, I was 10 years old when I auditioned,
11:3011 years old when I got the part and filmed it,
11:33and 12 when he came out.
11:35It took a minute.
11:35This was back when Lionsgate was really indie.
11:39Now they have a lot of money.
11:41I did always want to act a fool.
11:44You better watch out.
11:45Look, who is you playing with?
11:46You know what I'm saying?
11:47I always like to play around.
11:49I think for me, like, hamming it up as a kid,
11:51I didn't know what's called acting, per se.
11:54I like to, like, just, you know, get into a character,
11:56get into a vibe, you know what I mean?
11:58And then my parents slowly would start telling me about acting
12:00because maybe they knew that I would like it.
12:02Like, I don't know.
12:03But they also, like, that's how they fell in love.
12:04So they were always talking about acting,
12:06and they took me to my first musical show
12:09when I was, like, five years old.
12:11I went to the Black Ensemble to see this musical
12:15of Jackie Wilson's story.
12:16You know, like, Jackie Wilson is the one who did
12:18My Heart Is Crying, Crying, Lonely Teardrop.
12:23He's really good.
12:24My dad's favorite singer.
12:25And so I would always, like, hear about it,
12:27acting, everything like that.
12:28And so then when my parents asked me if I wanted to do it,
12:31I was kind of like, yeah,
12:32it seems like some just fun stuff to do.
12:35Child, it became a career.
12:37I mean, it was like I blinked,
12:38and I would all of a sudden have my own TV show.
12:40It was crazy.
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