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- Keke Palmer was 'comfortable' filming steamy scenes with Pete Davidson: 'He's pretty well-liked in the female world'</p>
<p>Wesley StenzelAugust 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM</p>
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<p>Pete Davidson and Keke Palmer in 'The Pickup'</p>
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<p>Keke Palmer says that she felt "comfortable" filming bedroom scenes with Pete Davidson during the second week of filming The Pickup.</p>
<p>The Nope star also discusses what she learned from improvising with Eddie Murphy in the movie.</p>
<p>The actress shares Murphy's compliment that "really touched" her.</p>
<p>Keke Palmer had a blast playing Pete Davidson's criminal situationship.</p>
<p>The Nope actress stars as Zoe, a conniving thief who plots to steal an armored truck, in the heist-comedy The Pickup. To execute her plan, Zoe seduces the truck's young driver, Travis (Davidson), much to the chagrin of his new partner Russell (Eddie Murphy). The unlikely trio reluctantly joins forces to rob a casino — and, despite their conflicting professions and worldviews, the sparks continue to fly between Zoe and Travis.</p>
<p>Entertainment Weekly spoke with Palmer to discuss the joys of working with Davidson and Murphy — including her silly bedroom scenes with the former.</p>
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<p>Pete Davidson and Keke Palmer in 'The Pickup'</p>
<p>ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was it like working with Pete Davidson? You two have comedic chemistry, and the audience wants to see you end up together, but it's not ever too serious or over-the-top romantic. How did you achieve that balance?</p>
<p>KEKE PALMER: I honestly think he and I have chemistry. Look, I don't know anybody that Pete don't have chemistry with. I mean, he's pretty well-liked in the female world.</p>
<p>We did a project together before — a podcast for Lorne Michaels on Audible that was a murder mystery buddy show — and we had chemistry there, even just with our voices. I think that's a thing. Sometimes you and people just have a vibe. You maybe don't even talk in everyday life, but when you get on set and you're working together, there's that chemistry. And I think he and I had that.</p>
<p>Plus, we are two people that don't really take ourselves seriously. My character's probably a little bit more serious than I present — even though I can be quite serious, she's more serious than I present. And I think that made it fun for us to play with, to lean into that kind of awkward romance, which I think we need more of. You know what I mean? Not serious romance. Let's get back into the humorous romance.</p>
<p>Some of the biggest laughs in the movie come from your flirty scenes with Pete in the bedroom. What was it like filming those scenes?</p>
<p>First of all, he's so sweet, so it was comfortable even though we were being all naked and stuff like that. But it was in the first week of a shooting — I think it might've been the second day or so. So we were just kind of like, "Hey, this is exciting. Have you met Eddie yet? Have you met Eddie yet?" And so we were just kind of being excited about that.</p>
<p>And I think, again, we were both really putting our best foot forward. I think it's a big opportunity for us both. We started out acting and performing as kids. I mean, he started doing standup at 12. I started acting at nine. So I think being at this point in our lives, we're in our thirties, and we're working with Eddie Murphy. For us, it feels like these are the moments that we dreamed of, and so we were just really happy to be there.</p>
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<p>Pete Davidson and Keke Palmer in 'The Pickup'</p>
<p>What was your history with Eddie Murphy and his work prior to The Pickup?</p>
<p>I mean, all his movies, I mean, he's like a family comedian from all generations. I think my dad's around the same age as him, or maybe a little younger, and my dad grew up watching Eddie and loving him. Then we got introduced to him, and then all his children's work, and then everything else — Dreamgirls! So I've been a fan most all my life.</p>
<p>What was your dynamic with Eddie like on set?</p>
<p>I asked him questions and stuff, but it was kinda like being on set with the wise sage, so I didn't want to overdo it. Me and Pete talked about that all the time, where it's like — you want to know so much and you could literally spend every day interviewing him, but you also want to be respectful of the fact that this isn't an interview and this is his job and we're at work. So I was really trying to be as professional as possible.</p>
<p>But after the movie, when you get to spend more time together off-set, obviously, you do get familiar with people, and I think I started to see that Eddie really got me just as much as I got him. It's been really cool because when we were doing press, he said that I reminded him of him. I had no idea that he was watching me, or that he was aware of me, and that really touched me.</p>
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<p>Pete Davidson, Eddie Murphy, and Keke Palmer in 'The Pickup'</p>
<p>Was there any improv during your scenes together?</p>
<p>There was light improv. My character has a different comedic tone than his and Pete's, because their rhythm is very unique, and I'm in the middle of them. So that was a very fun thing to make sure that I'm playing the rhythm between them — if theirs is high, then I'm going to be somewhere on the in-between. So not tons of improv, but there was a little bit of improv in a small moment that I have with him in the casino near the end. There's this moment with Roman Reigns that we have.</p>
<p>But I do feel like working with him and watching his improv prepared me for One of Them Days. I shot The Pickup before that.</p>
<p>Were there any particular lessons that you took away from Eddie's process?</p>
<p>In the craft: always playing the truth. He is never trying to be funny; he's just bringing the honesty in the room. He lets the situation be the humor. He's very, very rooted in what's real, and I think that's so important. I think comedy's a lot harder than people imagine it to be because you want people to laugh, but people laugh from truth, from things they relate to from the honesty of the moment. So that's something that I watched and saw firsthand that my mom would always tell me, but seeing him, a master, do it, it really clicked even deeper.</p>
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<p>Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, and director Tim Story on the set of 'The Pickup'</p>
<p>And then something else he said stuck with me. People look at his career, and they can imagine like, "Damn, he must have been hustling, hustling, hustling." And he said, "I never actually really hustled. I wouldn't call it hustle. I was obviously focused on my craft and being skilled, but I always just went with the flow. I always went with what felt right with me, and that's how I arrived at these moments."</p>
<p>I think that's an important thing for us to hear, especially as young people trying to create our paths in the industry, whatever industry it might be. A lot of times, we feel like we've got to go so far outside of ourselves — and that doesn't mean you don't prepare, that doesn't mean you don't get ready. But in that readiness is that flow. You trust that things are going to arrive when they're meant to arrive.</p>
<p>Did Eddie ever see or comment on One of Them Days?</p>
<p>You know what? When we were doing our junkets and during our interviews and stuff, I've told him that, but I don't know if he actually saw One of Them Days. That's funny. I never asked him if he's seen it. But working with him really did, I think, impact me a lot in preparation for that movie.</p>
<p>The Pickup is now streaming on Prime Video.</p>
<p>This interview has been edited for clarity and length.</p>
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