Keke Palmer & Corbin Bleu - January 12, 2007

Here are some of the highlights from the Interview.

Raul: Let’s talk about the movie, what part do you play in Jump In?

Keke Palmer: I play kind of Corbin’s characters Izzie’s kind of love interest. My characters name is Mary and it was kind of my first kind of love interest role so it was kind of funny but I’m excited about the movie to see how it turned out.

Raul: How long did it take you to for you to film the movie?

Keke Palmer: It took us… we started in June and then we finished in July, like July 28th so it was like a month maybe a month and a half.

Raul: I’ve talked to Corbin quite a bit and he told me he knew nothing about boxing before he went in the movie and he trained pretty hard so what were your impressions of him in that role?

Keke Palmer: I mean he did such an amazing job. I mean he said he never did boxing before or double dutching and I mean when you see some of the stuff that he’s done in the double dutching scenes you’re going to be really amazed and just like wow I hope I can do something like that cause he did such an amazing job.

Raul: Well you have a movie coming up here in January.

Corbin Bleu: Yes I do, Jump In!

Raul: And last time we talked you were getting prepped for it.

Corbin Bleu: Yeah, that’s right. I was in the middle of training. Oh wow – yeah lot’s happened since then.

Raul: Yeah, everyone I’ve talked to said you’ve worked pretty darn hard.

Corbin Bleu: Oh yeah, it’s been crazy every single day. It’s funny we actually have a calendar and every single day until the end of April has something on it – no joke, ever day it’s incredible but that’s what I want ya know to be able to continually work all the time because I enjoy it.

Raul: And I think the most unique part about this is double dutching cause this ain’t easy.

Corbin Bleu: No… I think that’s the cool part about it is everybody gets to see, cause most people might not know what double dutch is and if they do know of double dutch they know of what people on the street kinda jumping up and down and singing songs and it’s really great cause now we’re going to be able to show the whole competitive side of double dutch where the extreme intensity that it goes through. I mean people flipping and people doing stuff on their hands and it’s just the things that really are I think hopefully get people into double dutch around the world.