Exclusive: KeKe Palmer, Sza, producer Issa Rae, and director Lawrence Lamont talk One Of Them Days
Hitting theaters on Jan. 17 from Sony Pictures is the buddy comedy film, One Of Them Days, directed by Lawrence Lamont and starring KeKe Palmer and Sza. Produced by Issa Rae, Deniese Davis, Sara Rastogi, James Lopez, and Poppy Hanks, the cast also includes Maude Apatow, Lil Rel Howery, Janelle James, Katt Williams, Gabrielle Dennis, Vanessa Bell Calloway, and Amin Joseph.
The screenplay is written by Syreeta Singleton (the showrunner on "Rap Sh!t").
Best friends and roommates Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) are about to have One of Them Days. When they discover that Alyssa's boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a comical race against the clock to avoid eviction and maybe keep their friendship intact...
Palmer and SZA teamed for Saturday Night Live when Palmer hosted and SZA was the musical guest.
Palmer, whose breakout role was in Akeelah and the Bee, recently has Jordan Peele’s Nope; Roadside Attractions’ Alice, which she also executive produced; STX’s Hustlers, and Fox’s Scream Queens among her film and TV credits. She recently launched her podcast Baby, This is Keke Palmer for Wondery/Amazon, and founded her own digital network, KeyTV, for which she has written, produced and starred in various original content including her directorial debut, the short film Big Boss, accompanied by an album of the same title, released in May 2023.
Palmer earned a 2021 Emmy Award for her self-created series Turnt Up With the Taylors, and recently made history as the first Black woman to win Outstanding Host For A Game Show at the Emmys for her work hosting NBC’s reboot of Password.
SZA is an Oscar nominee and four-time Grammy winner whose major label debut album Ctrl landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Albums chart, No. 2 on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. RIAA-certified three-time platinum, the album received five Grammy nominations. In 2018 she collaborated with Kendrick Lamar in the song “All the Stars” for Black Panther. The song received four nominations at the 61st Grammys including Record of the Year and Song of the Year, along with Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Original Song.
Lamont has directed music videos for some of the industry’s biggest artists including J. Cole, Big Sean, Kanye West, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jhene Aiko, Nas and Snoop Dogg. His music video for Big Sean’s “IDFWU” won BET’s Video of the Year and most recently MTV’s Best Hip Hop video.
