Keke Palmer is living for Twitter users’ hilarious responses to Tyra Banks’ notoriously cringe-worthy 2008 interview with Beyoncé.
25.07.2022 - 16:47 / usmagazine.com
Claiming her space. Keke Palmer responded to a viral conversation comparing her career to Zendaya‘s — and she didn’t hold back.
The 28-year-old Akeelah and the Bee actress weighed in after a Twitter user shared their thoughts on Palmer’s performance in Jordan Peele‘s Nope, which hit theaters on Friday, July 22. The fan argued that the different levels of “mainstream popularity” achieved by Palmer and Zendaya, 25, is “one of the clearest examples of how colorism plays out in Hollywood” — but the Nickelodeon alum sees it a little differently.
“A great example of colorism is to believe I can be compared to anyone,” Palmer tweeted on Sunday, July 24. “I’m the youngest talk show host ever. The first Black woman to star in her own show on Nickelodeon, & the youngest & first Black Cinderella on broadway. I’m an incomparable talent. Baby, THIS, is Keke Palmer.”
She continued, “I’ve been a leading lady since I was 11 years old. I have over 100+ credits, and currently starring in an original screenplay that’s the number one film at the box office #NOPE. I’ve had a blessed career thus far, I couldn’t ask for more but God continues to surprise me.”
The Illinois native made her big screen debut in 2004 with Barbershop 2: Back in Business, later moving to television. She starred as the titular character on Nick’s True Jackson, VP, which ran from 2008 to 2011. Palmer hosted her own talk show, Just Keke, and earned a Daytime Emmy Award as one of the cohosts of Strahan, Sara and Keke. Before Nope, she appeared alongside Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles and more in 2019’s Hustlers.
Zendaya, for her part, joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2017 as MJ in Spider-Man: Homecoming after getting her start on Disney’s Shake It Up. She returned to the
Keke Palmer is living for Twitter users’ hilarious responses to Tyra Banks’ notoriously cringe-worthy 2008 interview with Beyoncé.
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Keke Palmer truly went to infinity and beyond for her role! In an ET exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the recent Disney/Pixar release, the actress and the film's director, Angus MacLane, detail how Palmer embodied the character of Izzy Hawthorne, an idealistic young recruit who fights alongside Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) on the colonial defense forces.«Keke Palmer is a force of nature,» MacLane raves in the clip. «She's insightful, super empathetic, and very direct in a very charming way.»«She was able to do both the fast-delivery comedy, and also the delivering of the emotional message, and have that switch feel natural,» the director adds.For her part, Palmer also praises MacLane as «a great director, because he allows me to play, and go wherever I need to go to find the character.»In, Palmer's character, Izzy, is the granddaughter of Buzz's late friend and commanding officer, Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), and has an emotional journey as she strives to live up to her family legacy — as well as save the universe from a powerful threat.«Through this journey with Buzz, she is able to reach her full potential, and fill those shoes of her grandmother, that she thought she'd never be able to fill,» the actress shares.
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Ron Howard knows exactly how hard it can be to move from being a young star to an accomplished filmmaker, and feels a great deal of respect for other talented artists with big dreams.The two-time Oscar winner spoke with ET's Will Marfuggi at the premiere of his new film, , on Thursday, where he responded to recent comments fromstar Keke Palmer, who said she aspires to following a similar path as Howard when it comes to moving behind the camera on future projects.«Wow! Well, that's high praise,» Howard marveled. «I'm honored by it. She's a great talent.»Howard reflected on his own path — beginning with his childhood role on, followed by his starring role on, before he became one of the most celebrated directors and producers of the past four decades.«I've been so fortunate,» Howard shared. «At the time that I transitioned into becoming a director and a producer, the notion that, you know, a kid coming off of a of a sitcom, and then a teenager coming off of a sitcom, could actually aspire to take that level of responsibility and make an array of different kinds of films? It was something I dreamed about, and I expected of myself, but I don't think anybody else took the idea very seriously.»Howard's daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, has also been been stepping behind the camera recently.
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Keke Palmer is quickly becoming one of the biggest names in Hollywood, and now, she's taking over a whole new world: the Metaverse.ET spoke with the 28-year-old ahead of the premiere of her new metaverse show, The series will air on Meta's Facebook and Instagram pages and aims to help shine a light on developments in the Metaverse. "[The show] does exactly what I always wanted to do, which is just inform everybody about all the great things that are happening digitally," Palmer tells ET's Lauren Zima. «I remember when I first worked on expanding my work on Instagram — I was really able to become not only a creator but a producer.
hired Palmer, 28, to host “Are We There Yet?” — a video series that explains the metaverse.The series will hype the “boundless possibilities” of Meta’s virtual reality platforms, according to Variety.The first episode of the series was released Tuesday and shows the star of Jordan Peele’s latest film behind the wheel of a car alongside Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of metaverse. “Could I reconstruct the Titanic, sail past an iceberg and scream, ‘Not this time, suckers!’?” Palmer asks Shah, 39.“You can do a version of that now,” Shah responds.“Are We There Yet?” is a “road trip into the metaverse” where Palmer will chat with “creators, educators and experts to find out where the metaverse stands now — and what’s coming in the future.”With Palmer as host, she’ll have different guests in the virtual passenger seat in every episode. Shah, the first guest, told Palmer that “the metaverse is the next phase of the internet.“And the main difference between the internet we use today and the next phase is that we can feel like we are there with other people in a way we can’t feel in our digital experiences today,” he continued.Before the premiere of Jordan Peele’s “Nope,” Meta launched a VR experience for the movie.
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series of tweets between multiple users gained attention for pointing out that some people online had been comparing Palmer’s success to that of Zendaya’s, saying that it “may be one of the clearest examples of how colorism plays out in Hollywood.” The tweets explained that, while both actors were child stars and have been landing starring roles for a majority of their lives, some have pegged Palmer’s role in Jordan Peele’s “Nope” as a breakout moment for the star. The theory was that what some fans saw as Palmer’s delayed mainstream success could be credited to her darker complexion in comparison to Zendaya’s lighter skin.
Zack Sharf Keke Palmer stood up for herself as an “incomparable talent” following a comparison to Zendaya that went viral on social media. A tweet posted July 23 compared Palmer and Zendaya’s careers as an example of “how colorism plays out in Hollywood.” Both stars got their starts on popular children’s TV shows before having careers that include music, Emmy wins and headlining Hollywood tentpoles.“I’d like someone to do a deep-drive on the similarities and differences between Keke Palmer and Zendaya’s careers,” the viral tweet reads. “This may be one of the clearest examples of how colorism plays out in Hollywood.