Keke Palmer on 'Nope' and exploitation in Hollywood
I think I’ve always been an improviser in life. And what I mean by that is, I hate dead space. So whenever there’s dead space or something awkward going on, I’m, like, “Yeah. So yeah, you know what I’m saying? Like, myahh.” I just end up trying to do something to fill that space. So it’s kind of like a nervous tic. I’ll be honest that the natural or innate ability to kind of improv is so that there’s no empty space.
It’s all rhythmic, you know, what you add and what you say and what you do and all that stuff — it should come from a place that you think is true to the character. And then also it’s musical. I think whether it’s lines or whether it’s improv, everything is, for me, about the rhythm of the scene. It’s never about trying to steal a moment or take a moment, it’s all about riding the waves and adding to the moment. And then as it pertains to hosting, it’s just about not letting it get awkward.
I think ultimately what I took from it was just that being seen, in our generation and definitely for me personally, has been based off of so many things that’s not real. And the only thing that really is real in our lives, or the only true people that really see us, are the ones that have always been there from the beginning, are the ones that have always loved us, cared for us, acknowledged us. It’s the ones that sometimes we take for granted.Definitely, my immediate family.
I think specifically on “Akeelah and the Bee,” I experienced serious actors that also treated me like an actor. Not that they were mean, but they definitely did not give me any shortcuts or treat me like a kid, which I think is a blessing. Like, I remember when I did this one scene with Laurence Fishburne and I started laughing because he was crying in the scene and obviously he’s an older man and I’m like, “This old man is crying,” and I started laughing ’cause I was a little kid.
And so Angela says all that. And then I shake my head yes and I start getting watery eyed, and she goes into the lines and we do the whole scene and we do the whole moment. And I remember that. I remember her teaching me how to attach my real-life emotions to something that the character was experiencing. To put it in context, which is — what’s happening that we all could relate to is that Akeelah was losing her support system. And we got that emotional scene.
And then the twins, my little brother and sister, they weren’t just in school yet. So I remember them having babysitters on the set of “Akeelah and the Bee” and things like that. But ultimately what happened is that it just hit a point where my dad could no longer do a job because if he did a job, then there would be nobody to take care of my older sister and my younger siblings because my mom was always with me. So it was like, all of our roles were switched.
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