The place do you get your confidence from? There’s been quite a bit on social media about how “Keke Palmer appears to be immune from social anxiousness.” Why do you assume that is?
I have been seeing that! I believe it is so humorous as a result of actually, I do have social anxiousness. My social anxiousness, I realized through the years, my defence mechanism, was to only be very flamboyant and performative, so to talk. And it is labored when it comes to my profession as a result of I’m a performer, however that’s my model of survival. It is identical to, effectively, let’s simply fill the area with noise! what I imply? That is my model of it. So all of us get anxious and get bizarre and awkward, however I believe that I realized to lean in as a result of that is the one factor that I do know to do. In my model of being a human that is how I survive the scenario is lean in and make enjoyable of myself and attempt to have enjoyable with it, after which it is over…I simply really feel like the one method to take care of it’s what might you do? Am I going to only blow up and implode at that second? So I simply have to determine a method to discover my method via so I attempt to make jokes and discuss concerning the ridiculousness of the conditions that we’re in and make enjoyable and attempt to snort and make issues simpler for myself and the folks which might be experiencing it with me.
You lately wore Jamie Lee Curtis’ classic Chanel gown to the SAG Awards and appeared completely unbelievable. Are you able to inform us how that happened?
Keke Palmer attending the SAG Awards in 2025 and Jamie Lee Curtis in 1986Getty Pictures
I had no concept that she had worn it!… however what a deal with that she had worn it. It was only a stunning gown that Molly Dickinson, the stylist that I labored with on that piece, we instantly liked it, we had been obsessive about it. And subsequent factor you understand, once they had been doing the write-ups on it, any individual pulled that Jamie had worn it. And Jamie has been somebody that is been very encouraging to me in my life. I’ve an precise private relationship along with her since we did Scream Queens collectively. So for me, it was even that rather more higher that she had truly worn it as effectively, as a result of that is my lady.
And he or she was there on the evening, proper?
She was, and I did not even get an opportunity to see her, which was insane. However I had simply noticed her, we had performed a retreat or one thing a number of months again, so we had reconnected then and seen her. And after I had my son, she despatched him so many books. And anytime that we see each other, it is actually we’re again on that Scream Queen set. I imply, she was like a aunt to me after I was engaged on that. Very a lot simply embracing me, seeing me, supporting me, encouraging me. An important individual. I believe I used to be 21, 22, so it is also the rising pains of being a younger girl, with my profession, discovering my place within the present on the solid and all of that stuff was very a lot so identical to a wise enterprise girl and simply wonderful. I am unable to wait until we get an opportunity to work collectively once more.
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