![]() My sister wrote the chorus and she sings some of the backgrounds and I'm singing the lead. PALMER: Yeah, it's out now, it's called All My Girls. PALMER: I didn't know I was gonna act, I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, when I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.īERKES: You sing one of the songs on the Akeelah and the Bee soundtrack. I knew I wanted to entertain.īERKES: Even at age five, this is something you saw in yourself? Like I would just be sitting there dancing or singing or something, and I had a little robe, you know, they made me a little robe to fit in with the choir, and so that's why I knew that I wanted to do something. At the time, I probably wasn't really, really in the choir. I kept on asking her and finally I was, you know, in the choir. I wanted to be in the choir as well and I was like, Mom, please, you know, I want to sing in the choir with you guys. ![]() PALMER: Well, I went to, you know, a church in Chicago, and my mom, of course, was in the choir because my mom was a singer, she used to sing. I mean a lot of people are like this is such a heavy movie, but it's a funny movie also, you know.īERKES: Now I understand that when you were five, you wanted to do something that your mom was kind of resisting that was not acting, but singing. I'd fake laugh and he said, Keke, that's a fake laugh, and I was lieke, and I just laughed harder and harder.īERKES: You had too much fun making this film. We did it so many times like it was a piece of cake, and were like, a couple of times we were fake laughing and that's when we got real laughs, because J.R., like I said, you know, he's so funny. PALMER: Yes, we meet at one of the spelling bees and he's a character, you know, he's funny, he's outgoing and he kind of, you know, has a crush on Akeelah.īERKES: And onscreen, you get a little kiss from Javier, right?īERKES: Is that your first kiss on or off screen?īERKES: Was that a good thing, a bad thing, indifferent? I mean, J.R., who plays Javier, he is just like, he's a little different, but he's just like Javier, the character.īERKES: Javier becomes your best friend, your spelling partner and competitor in the film. ![]() At times there was no difference between making the film and being on the set? You played Scrabble in the film, you jump rope in the film. We'd have maybe thirty minutes and we'd double-dutch.īERKES: And these are things that you also did in the film. Sometimes we'd play Scrabble and also, because of the jumping, I double-dutch, and we double-dutched like after lunch. A lot of the movies that I do is not kids on the set and it's mainly adults, and so I was really excited to do this film also because I'd be able to have fun with kids and I'd be able to do fun things on the set. And also because there were so many kids in the movie. PALMER: It was just so inspiring and it was, because I'm not like Akeelah, that made me want to play the role too, because I was able to play another person. And then, you know, I got the part.īERKES: What was it that made you say to yourself, I want to do this movie? Macy and I was, you know, we were looking for new movies to do because, you know, I was just starting to really get into the movie thing and starting to do really well in it, and so we heard from my agent about Akeelah and the Bee, and so I went down and I auditioned and I think I auditioned about five times. PALMER: Well, I had just finished a shooting movie called the Wool Cap that I played in as a co-star role with William H. But me, myself, I didn't struggle with anything like that. But my friends and my friends back in Chicago, which is where I'm originally from, some of them were afraid to be smart and do good in school because people might think they're nerds or their losers, you know, things like that. I'm not afraid to be myself and I'm not afraid, you know, to do good in school because I fit in even though I was smart. PALMER: Well, me myself isn't in that aspect like Akeelah. Well, Akeelah Anderson, the character that you play, she has to overcome shyness, her mother's resistance, even the resentment of her friends in order to get to the National Spelling Bee. ![]() ![]() Prestidigitation.īERKES: I had to look it up just to write this question. Keke, do I dare ask you whether you can still spell prestidigitation? Keke Palmer joins us now from our studios at NPR West. It's in it's second weekend in theatres around the country. That's the story of a seventh grade girl from South Los Angeles who turns a knack for spelling into a transformative journey to the National Spelling Bee. At least she could when she starred as Akeelah Anderson in the film Akeelah and the Bee. Can you spell prestidigitation? Twelve year old Keke Palmer can. ![]()
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