Keke Palmer says Ryan Murphy "ripped" into her over Scream Queens schedule
Palmer recalls clashing with the showrunner and experiencing a racist microaggression on set of Scream Queens.
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Keke Palmer has become a mogul of her own making in the past few years, but in 2015 she was in a transitional phase of moving her career from child star to adult performer. She was cast in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens, for which she was well suited; it’s a campy, unserious series that could showcase her considerable comedic talents. From the outside, she seems like a perfect fit for Murphy’s stable of stars, and she even thought she might become one of the actors “you keep seeing in Ryan’s world—Sarah Paulson, Emma Roberts,” as she says in a new Los Angeles Times interview. But an altercation between her and the powerful producer may have ruined her chances.
In her new book Master Of Me: The Secret To Controlling Your Narrative, Palmer writes that she had arranged to do another job during time off from filming Scream Queens but was called to the set of the horror comedy. Palmer decided to fulfill her obligation to the other job, leading to a nasty phone call from Murphy who “ripped” into her: “It was kind of like I was in the dean’s office,” she tells the Times. “He was like, ‘I’ve never seen you behave like this. I can’t believe that you, out of all people, would do something like this.'”