Sixteen years after they played mother and daughter in 2006’s Akeelah and the Bee, Angela Bassett and Keke Palmer reunited in a sit-down interview with Vanity Fair.
Bassett, 64, kicked things off by mentioning 29-year-old Keke’s impression of her, which the Nope actress recently updated in a promo for her upcoming Saturday Night Live appearance.
“I’ve seen you online imitating me,” the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star said with a smile. “You do a great job.”
Palmer revealed that Queen Latifah, with whom she’s worked on a few films, used to ask her to do the Bassett impression “all the time” on movie sets.
“I used to only do it for her. I just recently started doing it online and everything,” Palmer shared.
“A friend of mine in D.C., she sent it to me,” Bassett replied. “I didn’t know what it was, it was on Instagram or something. And I looked and of course, it was like, hearts, hearts, hearts, hearts. I love it. I adore it.”
Before unveiling her impression of Bassett in the 1992 TV miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream, Palmer said, “I saw What’s Love Got to Do With It very young, and The Jacksons: An American Dream very young. You were the most iconic thing to me in both of those films, obviously. What’s Love Got to Do With It—I think it took years for me to know who the real Tina Turner was, because in my mind it was you.”
On Twitter Friday, Keke wrote, “Doing my impression of @ImAngelaBassett for Angela was too good!! … I had so much fun.”
Watch Palmer and Bassett’s full interview up top.
News arrived Friday that Palmer is set to co-star in Moxie for Amazon. “The film is about a foul-mouthed stripper who pisses off the FBI in a big way when she somehow becomes the best candidate for their fancy new agent program,” Deadline wrote. The outlet also pointed out that the multi-hyphenate just won Best Supporting Actress from the New York Film Critics Association for Nope.