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Keke Palmer takes a stroll down memory lane as she rewatches moments from her decades-long career. Watch as Keke revisits 'Akeelah and the Bee,' True Jackson, VP,' 'Hustlers,' 'Nope,' 'One Of Them Days,' 'I Love Boosters,' and her unforgettable, meme-immortalized appearance on Vanity Fair's Lie Detector: "Sorry to this man!"
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00:00They're yours too, sorta.
00:01I shortened them.
00:03Why did I do that?
00:05Amanda.
00:07Ah, sorry, that's so funny.
00:09Why would I do that?
00:11I'm so stupid.
00:14Hi, I'm Kiki Palmer, and I'm gonna watch some scenes throughout my career.
00:33Kila, what's wrong?
00:34I don't wanna do the B no more.
00:36You don't wanna do the B. Why not?
00:39Dr. Larry don't wanna coach me no more.
00:42Georgia don't wanna hang out with me.
00:44And all these people are expecting me to win.
00:48And it's just too hard, Mama.
00:51I wanted a lot to stop.
00:52Baby, he wants something.
00:53Please.
00:54Please.
00:55Alright, alright.
00:57Yes!
01:00Oh, my gosh.
01:02I love that little girl, you know?
01:04She was fighting for her life, okay?
01:07You know, I really, really didn't realize how much I was relating to Akilah
01:11in terms of, like, doing my own version of the spelling bee, which was acting,
01:15which was being a kid performer, you know?
01:16And I remember this scene specifically because I was having a hard time crying.
01:21And Angela Bassett, she was, like, the one that got through to me,
01:25and she was sitting in front of me and she was like,
01:27okay, who helps you run your lines and get to your auditions?
01:32And I was like, my mom.
01:34And she was like, so your mom does everything for you.
01:37She's the one who makes sure that you're able to do all the things that you love.
01:40I was like, yeah, I wouldn't be able to do anything without my mom.
01:43And she was like, well, what if one day your mom said, no, I'm not going to help you anymore?
01:49How would that make you feel?
01:51Like, she immediately helped me to tie the emotion of Akilah,
01:55of what Akilah was going through, to my actual life in a way that wasn't destructive,
02:00which sometimes emotional stuff can be for actors when you don't have other tools.
02:04When I think about the mentorship that Angela has shown me
02:08and what I learned from Lawrence Fishburne on the set of Akilah and the Bee,
02:11those are things that still have stuck to me.
02:13I think in so many ways they were my first teachers in the industry.
02:22Young woman, may I ask who made your jacket?
02:27Well, you did.
02:28I thought it looked familiar, but I don't recall the buttons being orange.
02:33They weren't. I changed them.
02:36And the pants?
02:37They're yours too, sorta.
02:39I shortened them.
02:41Why did I do that?
02:45Sorry, that's so funny.
02:47Why would I do that? I'm so stupid.
02:51Oh my gosh.
02:54That little girl, that little girl was working hard.
02:57She was doing the best she could every step of the way.
03:00I was just giving it 150 million percent.
03:03It's just, I just remember this time.
03:07This was like the feeling of a dream coming true.
03:10I grew up, you know, watching Disney, Nickelodeon, you know what I mean?
03:14And always being like, wow, it would be so cool to do something like that.
03:18And just, you know, we all did.
03:19And it actually happened.
03:21Like, I remember just being like, I really have my own show.
03:24Like, I was just gagged beyond belief.
03:27And then also over the years, it was, this is a lot of work.
03:30It's almost like a, it's not as bad as the movie Bedazzled, but it's a version of that where it's
03:36like, when you get what you wish for, it also does come with responsibilities.
03:40And so I remember being like, this was a lot.
03:43I had to grow up really fast and not like in this like cliche way.
03:47I just mean truly, like I, I had to not worry about having kid feelings because I was in the,
03:53in a workplace.
03:53I wasn't doing a job.
03:55And, you know, we know as adults, don't bring your to work.
03:58You know, you just know as an adult, that's expected.
04:00I go in, clock in, clock out, whatever.
04:02Like I leave it at home.
04:03But as a kid, you're supposed to be able to be unreasonably angry, unreasonably sad, unreasonably whatever, cause you a
04:11kid.
04:11But because it was so much at stake, I just couldn't do it.
04:15As obvious as it is, kids are working like adults.
04:18Nobody really wants to feel that.
04:20So when you were a little kid and you, and you're like, so what's going, even though you probably feel
04:26like, look, in order for me to get, I'm going to need to be back.
04:29You instead like, I wonder what time we're going.
04:31You have to kind of like still be a kid with it.
04:33Otherwise people are like, you make people feel bad.
04:37And again, that's already something too much to be thinking about.
04:47Hey, these are my sisters.
04:52Hi.
04:54Hi.
04:56Hi.
04:56Hi.
04:57Ramona.
04:59What a time.
05:00New York, pre-COVID.
05:02A different world.
05:03Let me tell you that much.
05:05I had a time filming that movie.
05:08I really enjoyed it.
05:09Being with all the girls.
05:10I loved being Lily.
05:11Lily Reinhardt.
05:12We had so much fun.
05:13Two Virgos.
05:14You know what I mean?
05:15It's a love fest.
05:15I was so thrilled to work with Jennifer Lopez.
05:18You know, I'd always been a fan of hers.
05:20It was a big reintroduction for me as an adult.
05:22Because, you know, this is when people weren't really referencing Akilah and the B, you know, or True Jackson VP
05:29as much anymore.
05:30Like, it was just a whole new world when I was an adult.
05:33It was like everything I did as a kid kind of disappeared in a lot of ways.
05:36It was hard because I wasn't having the same feedback that I had as a kid where I was just
05:41booking and booking and booking.
05:43The difficulties of auditioning became much more realer in my teen to adult years.
05:48And I remember this opportunity was like a reintroduction to a whole new audience.
05:54And then also a remembrance of those that maybe were like, oh yeah, you know what I'm saying?
05:59Like, some movies I've done before where it's like, you rehearse, you rehearse.
06:02But like, we did not rehearse on this.
06:03This was just like us being in the same room for hours at end and ending up becoming close and
06:09cool, you know?
06:10Usually with improv, it's a scenario prompt.
06:12You know, this is what's going on.
06:14And just do as you go.
06:16And that was kind of the vibe here.
06:17You know what I mean?
06:18It was like, you're meeting this guy for the first time.
06:20You guys are trying to get him to, you know, get loose and get comfortable enough for you guys to
06:25put something in this drink and, you know, take him for everything he's got.
06:29And so that's, at that point, you know exactly what you need to say.
06:33I love you.
06:33You've done everything on my mind.
06:35Like, I can feel, is it big?
06:37You know, you got to say and do anything that against somebody.
06:40So, you know, that's, I remember just being a scenarios prompted and then we just run with it.
06:52You go to the most credible platform to do the story.
06:54What's that, like Oprah?
06:55Yeah.
06:56Like Oprah, for example.
06:57After that, everybody won't in.
06:59Well, I'm saying there's plenty of videos of flying shit online.
07:01I saw one the other day that wasn't on Oprah.
07:03Nigga, I didn't say Oprah.
07:04You said Oprah.
07:05You love Oprah.
07:05I think anytime you find a rhythm with the other person you're sharing your scene with, I listen.
07:10Like, I hear lines as music.
07:12And so I'm always trying to serve the scene, what the scene is meant for.
07:17If the scene is meant for exposition or this scene is meant for us to understand them.
07:21If this scene is meant for whatever it is, I'm going to have that guide me and then I'm going
07:25to listen to the other person and see what instrument they're playing.
07:28And then I'm going to support that with what I say back and make sure that we're aligned.
07:33You know what I mean?
07:33Jordan wanted that hair.
07:35He looked at my Instagram page and he said, I think this is Emerald's hair.
07:38And I'm like, wow, like you want my natural hair for the movie.
07:42And I remember being so like gagged by that and excited because I'll be honest, you know, it doesn't seem
07:47like it's that many years ago.
07:48But like it's still it's been really still a thing when a black woman wears her natural hair, you know,
07:54especially when how I came up like True Jackson VP was like weave only.
07:57You know what I mean? There was no world where I was damn near even gonna wear braids.
08:01Like it was like she had a little I had like a little weave in that I had to get
08:05in all the time.
08:06I remember just feeling like, wow, it's a new world that I'm doing a movie.
08:11First of all, with someone like a Jordan Peele, that a Jordan Peele exists, that we're getting this kind of
08:16backing from a studio like Universal.
08:18And that I am going to be a queer black actress, you know, playing in this movie with my natural
08:27look.
08:28It was just like to me, having been in the industry for over 20 years, that was definitely like a
08:33sign that some things have changed.
08:35You know what I mean?
08:36Ain't nobody gonna get what we gonna get.
08:38What we gonna get?
08:38The shot.
08:39What shot?
08:40The shot.
08:41The money shot.
08:43Undeniable.
08:43Singular.
08:44The Oprah shot.
08:46The Oprah shot?
08:48True horror of nope is extraction.
08:51I think for me, it's like this idea that we can be eaten by the very things that we're chasing.
08:57And I think about it in terms of like consumerism, spectacle, the desire to be seen by things bigger than
09:04ourselves.
09:05And sometimes that quest within itself can eat you alive.
09:09Because again, sometimes you don't know what you're asking for, you don't know what you're wishing for.
09:13And if you don't really think hard enough on it, you can find yourself in situations where you don't know
09:19if you're gonna get out alive.
09:26Wait.
09:28Um, what are the interest rates?
09:31There.
09:33Damn, I thought that was the year of establishment.
09:35Mm-mm.
09:36If you don't have the money this month, you're not gonna have it next month.
09:41This was an improv day, okay?
09:43We had lines, but like we really went in.
09:46All of us did.
09:46So first of all, Kayla is a G.
09:48Like she is honestly insane.
09:50Like from Curb Your Enthusiasm, really everything that she's in, she really makes it a moment and just goes up.
09:56And she did that in this scene.
09:58I remember like just we're all going back and forth.
10:01Me, SZA, Kayla, just every take was different.
10:04And I don't even know how they actually cut it together to be honest with you.
10:06You know, we kept some of the same beats, but we would be going up, up, up at the end.
10:10And we were at, I mean, it was just a lot of improv.
10:12It was a very fun and crazy day.
10:14You guys are old.
10:15Way too old not to understand how credit works, ladies.
10:19Just get it together.
10:20Oh, sweetie.
10:21I'll get it together.
10:22Get it together.
10:22You'll get it together, honey.
10:23You know what?
10:24Denied.
10:24Why are you acting so up?
10:25You ain't nothing but a hood rat.
10:27You're denied.
10:28You're void.
10:29A lot of it was hard to keep a straight face.
10:31That's why it's like, it's like one of those things where I don't know how they edit it together.
10:35Because some of them were laughing or having to hide behind each other.
10:39CZA was definitely like, she went, she was like, okay guys, we have to restart real quick.
10:43Because we started getting just crazy.
10:46You know what I mean?
10:47You just start getting silly because honestly, it's a big moment of play.
10:50I've never seen a credit score this low.
10:55Well, I, you know, when I went to business school, I had to get a loan.
11:00Within the system, you go in there and you maybe don't even have a chair to sit down in.
11:03And this is the place that you're going to get help and service from.
11:06And then sometimes the person in there might even be making fun of you.
11:09And then you got the whole thing with the interest rates where it's like, you're really signing me up to
11:13be in debt forever.
11:14And it's like, you don't, there's no financial literacy or education.
11:19And you wind up in these situations where you're kind of really being set up for failure.
11:23And it's just like, I think that's what we're seeing the girls go through with the entire movie is, you
11:28know, they front of the hood.
11:29You know what I mean? They're doing the best with what they've got.
11:31There's no room for error.
11:33And I think that's the thing is like, we're only human.
11:37And this idea that, you know, in some areas, you've got to be a rose that grows from concrete.
11:45Everybody deserves some grass, some sunlight, and a little bit of water.
11:55Where's your white girl? Everybody else is in place.
11:58Stevie's here.
12:01Stevie's ready.
12:04Many of those are ready too.
12:05Hey.
12:08I know you.
12:12You don't know me.
12:17I'm the club.
12:19We all know that guy.
12:21That's a dangerous .
12:22Let me tell you that.
12:24It's bad, you know, I love the way that Boots heightens situations or he creates irony in a moment.
12:32Like when people get to know like the background story of Lakeith's character, it just becomes that much more to
12:39me really relatable because we all know what that's like when you meet this person and you guys are connected,
12:45but the connective tissue is kind of like traumatic, you know, but you feel the excitement and the potential of
12:50what could be.
12:51But then before you know it, it kind of sucks the life out of you.
12:54Panavision created this lens for the movie.
12:57Like whatever they, when this moment happens, it's like a specially created one that I don't even know that he
13:03had, you know, necessarily in mind.
13:05He just knows what he wants people to feel like.
13:06Kill me with that candy ritual.
13:08I love red happy bustlers.
13:10They relax me.
13:11They won't be anxious.
13:12Yeah, but you spit it out.
13:13It was really hot.
13:15Okay.
13:15I'm wearing the like padded suit underneath.
13:18Then on top of that, I have like clothes like stuffed, you know, into the actual sweat pink sweatsuit that
13:24I'm wearing.
13:25So it was very, very hot, you know, and obviously deeply imbalanced.
13:29You know what I'm saying?
13:30With those heels that I had on.
13:31I mean, it was actually quite fabulous as well.
13:33Like when I look at it as well, like I love the look, like the hair and the pink.
13:37So, you know, she was kind of eating down.
13:39And so was Naomi's character like Sade.
13:41I loved her outfit here as well.
13:43I just remember us just staying true to the moment because there's so many things that are hilarious about the
13:49scenario that I think the biggest thing that you always want to make,
13:52make sure that you do is to stay grounded, is to be completely grounded in the moment because you don't
13:58want to compete with what's happening.
14:11The ball coming down, he would just tell me like, you know, that's where that that was written in the
14:15script.
14:16That's something that we, you know, you know, like this is, you know, this is the big metaphor of what's
14:20chasing her.
14:20What we all, it's so relatable. If we all have a ball or a monster or something like that in
14:26our lives that we are running from or we are trying to metabolize or that we, it's constantly in the
14:31back of our head.
14:32We talk about that all the time because I think that's like so human.
14:35I remember when he went, when we were matching to the van behind us, it was really a conversation about
14:39like, he's like, don't force it.
14:41You know, but if you can hit that and make it look natural, it would be great.
14:44And so I was definitely wanting to hit that because I thought it was a cool shot. And when I
14:48see it in the movie, I really love, I really love that moment.
14:57Would you say that True Jackson VP was a better VP than Dick Cheney?
15:02What the hell is, oh, y'all are really testing me on some stuff that I, I hate to say
15:09it. I hope I don't sound ridiculous. I don't know who this man is.
15:12I mean, he could be walking down the street. I wouldn't, I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man.
15:19I will never understand. I wouldn't, I will always be just gagged by, by sorry to this man.
15:24Sorry to this man is always, I just remember, I'm just still to this day. It's like, wow. It was
15:30like, sorry to this man was a movie.
15:32You know what I mean? It was a very short one, but it really was a movie in so many
15:36ways because people still come up to me talking about that damn near more than anything in my catalog of
15:40films.
15:40And it's like, yeah, it's, it's, it's unique. Like my generation is a generation of memes, but we remember the
15:46time where that didn't exist.
15:47So it, you know, there was no way I could predict this type of media.
15:52Um, so it's like, I'd be, you know, it's like a little, it's like a version of a cartoon or
15:55an avatar, even though it's me, but.
15:58So once I seen the feedback, I was like, well, I've got, I've got to give the people what they
16:03want.
16:03Maybe I need to put this on a shirt or something that people want to have this moment. You know
16:06what I mean?
16:07I think you're always trying to figure out how to service the audience. You just never, again, it was like
16:11such a unique scenario.
16:13But I was like, should I be servicing this? Should I be, you know, is there more that I can
16:17give them on this?
16:17Because I don't really know, like, I don't, I didn't remember, I remember being there thinking like this is, I
16:24had not seen anything like that vibe before.
16:32Ah, wow, it's always crazy going down memory lane, you know, hindsight is 20-20.
16:37It's one of those things where, you know, I don't know, I guess I would just say that I really
16:41appreciate any opportunity to just, you know, take a, take a look in the past, you know, as I continue
16:45to trudge forward.
16:46Thanks for watching.
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