Keke Palmer Shares the Secret to Her Meme-ability

“When I first started reading the script,” Common said, “I called my manager like, ‘Man, you know I don’t want to do a slave movie.'” Common’s manager told him to “keep reading,” and it didn’t take long for him to understand what he meant. He says he was “attracted [to] the twists and turns and that I never knew what was going to happen.”

Keke was equally excited to take on the project, which she described as “powerful.” 

“It’s important for us all to look at history as a way to pull back the layers that have been hidden as it pertains to some of these atrocities,” Keke told Daily Pop. “Although we went through the intense journey with Alice, in the end of it, I felt not just happy for her or better inside about what she accomplished, but I was also able to take that same spirit with me into my life as a Black woman.”

Hear more from Keke and Common in the above E! News interview.

Alice is in theaters March 18.