Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making of “Akeelah and the Bee”
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Veronica Wells
Why did Keke want the role?
Even though Keke Palmer had a pretty advanced understanding about what message the film was going to send, she told NPR that she had more of a childlike reason for wanting to do the film.
It was just so inspiring and because I’m not like Akeelah that made me want to play the role too because I was able to play another person and also because it was so many kids in the movie. A lot of the movies I do there aren’t kids on the set, it’s mainly adults. And I was really excited to do this film also because I’d be able to have fun with the kids and I’d be able to do fun things on the set. Sometimes we’d play Scrabble and also because of the jumping. I double dutch and we double dutched after lunch.
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