Keke Palmer Addresses ‘Sister Act 3’ Casting Rumors & If She’s Really Involved (Exclusive)

Sister Act 3 is 1 of the astir highly-anticipated upcoming films. Ever since prima Whoopi Goldberg named Keke Palmer arsenic 1 of her imagination formed members, everyone has conscionable assumed Keke is portion of the 3rd film. It’s adjacent connected her IMDb page! HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Keke astir what’s going connected with her and Sister Act 3.

“I emotion that the rumors astir maine go truthful bully that they go true,” Keke said portion discussing her concern with Doritos for its Big “Dip” Campaign astir its caller enactment of Doritos-flavored dips and Big Dip Energy giveaway.  I’m gonna spell with this due to the fact that I’m decidedly formed in Sister Act 3 — they adjacent person it connected IMDb astatine this point. It’s real. So I mean, they haven’t fixed maine the contract, honey, but I volition bash it for escaped astatine this point. [IMDB] did acceptable america each up due to the fact that I looked astatine it myself and said, ‘when bash I commencement filming?'”

Keke Palmer astatine the Met Gala. (Matt Baron/Shutterstock)

Whoopi revealed backmost successful October 2022 connected Hell of A Week with Charlamagne Tha God, that her apical picks for Sister Act 3 formed members were Keke, Lizzo, and Nicki Minaj. “I’m gonna inquire Keke to come. You know, I privation everybody to travel in. I privation Lizzo to come,” The View big said.

Keke admitted to HollywoodLife that she needed to get successful interaction with Whoopi soon for an wholly antithetic reason. “I besides truly request to deed her up about SNL arsenic good arsenic speech astir her one-woman amusement [1983’s Spook Show]. I mean, comedic brilliance,” Keke said. The Nope prima volition make her SNL debut connected December 3.

Keke took a infinitesimal to praise Whoopi, an EGOT victor among galore different accolades. “Growing up, [I knew] Whoopi Goldberg from Ghost to a one-woman amusement to Sister Act and Sister Act 2. Obviously, her trajectory from not conscionable doing drama but past to The Color Purple. She is simply a skilled entertainer and a craftsman erstwhile it comes to the art. And I deliberation the radical that are existent artists, they recognize respect true, they decidedly cognize that which is truly each that that truly matters,” she said.

Whoopi Goldberg successful ‘Sister Act 2.’ (Everett Collection)

The histrion continued, “But I bash consciousness that sometimes, arsenic the generations grow, however bash we support the legends alive? How bash we support radical knowing the interaction of what immoderate of these radical person done? When you speech astir creation being retired of schoolhouse and worldly similar that, and [the arts] that radical don’t enactment the clip successful – for me, that is disheartening. I’m specified a nerd successful that way. I’m reasoning astir each of the greats – backmost to the vaudevillian.”