Keke Palmer Explains Why Her First On-Screen Kiss Was 'Weird'

LOADING ERROR LOADING Keke Palmer is providing a glimpse at the challenges faced by child actors. On a Nov. 20 episode of Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast, Palmer said that her first major on-screen kiss — with fellow actor Corbin Bleu in the 2007 Disney film “Jump In!” — felt weird. According to Palmer, her agent seemed to dismiss these concerns by saying that an underage Meagan Good had kissed an adult Samuel L. Jackson in the 1997 movie “Eve’s Bayou.” “I was just like, ‘Huh?’” Palmer said, remembering that she wondered what she was “supposed to do with that” information. “There’s a weird thing that happens with kid entertainers, where we have to literally dissociate so much as an adult would in the workplace, in ways that’s not normal or common,” Palmer said. He let me know everything you’re going through, and I want you to know, sometimes it’s hard being the first, but you’ll get through.” Palmer said this advice could apply to not only child entertainers, but others who are “firsts” in their family — like the first one to go to college, or the first to get married.