Keke Palmer has just lately mirrored on her struggles in Hollywood as a younger black girl in her early appearing days.
In a brand new interview with The Cut, the Nope actress opened up that she wasn’t thought-about in the identical conservations as others like her contemporaries on Nickelodeon.
“I wasn’t essentially in the identical conversations as Victoria Justice or Selena Gomez or Miley Cyrus at the moment,” mentioned the 31-year-old.
Palmer informed the outlet, “It was very a lot ‘That’s the Black present’ or ‘That’s Keke Palmer, the Black woman on the community.’”
The actress, who starred within the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP for 3 seasons, felt that individuals “had been placing limitations” on her.
Palmer said, “There is a lack of innocence that comes with the attention that you simply’re handled otherwise and I had accepted a very long time in the past.”
“I don’t evaluate myself to anybody however I don’t evaluate myself to any White individual,” remarked the Emmy winner.
Palmer, who has labored on each Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, revealed the variations between the 2 networks.
The actress discovered “Disney” wonderful when it got here to “storytelling on display screen and throughout the firm”.
As far as Nickelodeon is anxious, Palmer famous that their “paying was superior”.
However, after the success of her Nickelodeon sitcom, Palmer continued to thrive in tv and flicks. She beforehand appeared in Scream Queens, Nope, Joyful Noise and Hustlers.
For now, Keke can be seen within the comedy film, One of Them Days, which goes to launch on January 17.
