{"id":2274615,"date":"2026-02-09T20:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2274615"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:03:49","slug":"how-the-burbs-creator-manifested-keke-palmer-to-star-in-her-dark-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-the-burbs-creator-manifested-keke-palmer-to-star-in-her-dark-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018The \u2018Burbs\u2019 Creator Manifested Keke Palmer to Star in Her Dark Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Celeste Hughey<\/a> knew from the jump that Keke Palmer<\/a> was the necessary piece to make her \u201cThe \u2018Burbs\u201d reboot pop.<\/p>\n

The multi-hyphenate has become ubiquitous for her quippy one-liners, quick wit and range of talent. For the \u201cDead to Me<\/a>\u201d writer, Palmer<\/a> was the perfect star for her reimagining of the Tom Hanks<\/a> 1989 film.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeke is who I saw as the star from moment one, she is the only person I wanted to play this role,\u201d Hughey told TheWrap<\/a>. \u201cWhen I wrote it, I wrote it to her as a love letter to her and her abilities as an actress \u2013 both comedic and dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Peacock original series pays homage…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celeste Hughey knew from the jump that Keke Palmer was the necessary piece to make her \u201cThe \u2018Burbs\u201d reboot pop. The multi-hyphenate has become ubiquitous for her quippy one-liners, quick wit and range of talent. For the \u201cDead to Me\u201d writer, Palmer was the perfect star for her reimagining of the Tom Hanks 1989 film. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2274616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2274615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/How-\u2018The-\u2018Burbs-Creator-Manifested-Keke-Palmer-to-Star-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274618,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274615\/revisions\/2274618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}