“I definitely did think about some of the jokes,” Palmer told BuzzFeed News. “Ultimately as an actor, you have to try to find a way to not be personal.”
Keke Palmer in the "Chainsaw" episode of Scream Queens.
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Zayday Williams is Scream Queen's pork rind–loving, Oakland-hailing college freshman, raised by an iron-fist-ruling grandmama who imparted this knowledge to her before she left on scholarship to attend Wallace University: "If I really, really applied myself, I could get out of Oakland and grow up to be the first black woman president."
Yes, the lone black pledge in the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority on the new Fox hit about a serial killer–stricken college campus does exhibit some racial stereotypes, but Keke Palmer, the actor who plays Zayday, wants viewers to know her character is anything but one-note.
"I love that she's from Oakland. I also love that she has attitude, she has kickback. She's smart. She's not a one-note character. Yes, she has funny lines, one-liners, but ultimately, she is the one that can obviously see that something is not right," Palmer told BuzzFeed News over the phone from Scream Queens' New Orleans set. "Being the only African-American female that's part of the sorority, I think as an actor, it's up to me to be honest about what I am comfortable with and what I'm not comfortable with. I get to work with people every day that respect my opinion just as much as they respect everybody else's. That plays a big part in why I was not offended by any of that. I knew it wasn't coming from this place. For me, I hadn't found any moments where I looked at my script and said, 'Whoa! This is not something I want to say.' Because ultimately, it's up to me on how I deliver it as well. As an actor, that's your job, to gauge it. You talk to your director: 'Hey, this line feels a little bit one-note.' And then maybe they'll tell you another way to do it that maybe you hadn't thought of yet."
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