Keke Palmer has had what only she would refer to as a chill day.
After we speak, shell consider a nap, but she also wants to get some more writing done.
Theres a new idea she has on the back burner.
I love it, Palmer says of the characterization from her couch in Los Angeles.
Shes wearing a black wavy weave with a middle part, her face still beat from being on set.
Miss Mamas is trying to break generational curses and build generational wealth.
It’s just too Virgo to the max, she says, laughing.
Its giving Tyler Perry!
I think it’s divine.
People need to realize I don’t quit…
I wasn’t always trending, she says.
Keke been doing this since she was 9.
You know what I mean?
Ive been working for a long time.
I think sometimes that flips over people’s heads.
Im constantly impressed by Kekes commitment to achieve her greatest passions at the highest level, says Addison.
She really is a very, very caring, kind person.
For Palmer, giving back means helping the next generation get opportunities she might have missed.
The gag is that it was more about her insatiable desire to create.
It came from boredom.
It came from just me being like, what else can I do?
How else can I have fun?
How else can I be creative?
So for me, it’s important with the character of Alice that we showed that truth.
She wasn’t weak.
She was smart, strategic, and strong.
She chose freedom from the time she was on the plantation to when she left.
She never gave them her mind and her spirit, even if they had her body.
That alone is representative and indicative of the kind of people that I come from.
I always look to the past as a way to get resilience and pride, she says.
Like a kind of secret superpower that I always felt from being Black.
We should be extinct, but we’re not.
Palmer will followAlicewith a leading role opposite Daniel Kaluuya in Jordan Peeles next horror movie,Nope.
First of all, I’m a very curious little baby.
So I’m always in everybody’s ear like, So what is this?
And what is that?
That just lets you know how powerful his aura is, and his brilliance.
And with it, Palmer knows, will come even more scrutiny.
But for right now, shes not ready to be anything other than herself online.
This is the happiest Ive ever felt with someone.
So why would I go out of my way to hide this person?
That’s a lot more work than just living in my life and being in my life.
You know what I’m saying?
As for the professional shift, shes prepared there too.
You know what I mean?
This is Palmers superpower, forged through 20 years in the industry: the ability to be herself.
Where she sits now is a place all her own.
But it’s also just another moment.
