This year marks her 20th year in show business. I ain’t never had that many people look at my work at once.”īut Palmer, 28, is a consummate entertainment veteran. “Because, I don’t even know what could or couldn’t happen after this - what the vibe would be. “And all I want to do is submerge into the wind. “This is probably one of the craziest next-evolution points of my career, doing this movie,” she told me. She was at Universal Studios for the film’s “content day,” doing interviews and filming a behind-the-scenes featurette.
Palmer was enthusiastic yet ambivalent about the hoopla surrounding “Nope,” the writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest film. Assistants and publicists darted in and out of the room. Her hairstylist, Ann Jones, tweaked the curls in her short Afro. At some point, as a show of appreciation, Universal Studios named one of its streets after her.Īt the corner of Canopy Street and Louise Beavers, Keke Palmer relinquished her head to the hair and makeup artists who rotated around her. When Beavers died in 1962 in her early 60s (her birth year is in question), she had played more than 150 roles, most of them maids, servants, slaves and mammies. One road is called Louise Beavers Avenue, after the character actor best known for her role in 1934’s racial-passing melodrama “Imitation of Life.” Her first onscreen performance was in the 1927 Universal production “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” in which she made an uncredited appearance as an enslaved person at a wedding. The roads of Universal Studios’ backlots are named for exemplars of the company’s old star system: Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Stewart, Nat King Cole, Gregory Peck.
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