Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making of “Akeelah and the Bee”
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Veronica Wells
First Kiss
When Akeelah kisses Javier at the end of the film, it was also the first time Keke had ever kissed a boy in real life. Luckily, Keke and J.R. Villarreal had established a decent friendship by the time it came to that. In another interview with NPR, Keke explained how the kiss went down for her.
“It was just funny, I think. We did it so many times it was like a piece of cake. A couple of times we were fake laughing and that’s when we got real laughs. Because J.R., like I said, he’s so funny. I’d fake laugh and he said Keke that’s a fake laugh and I just laughed harder and harder. Everybody’s like this is such a ‘heavy movie’ but it’s a funny movie also, you know?”
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