Keke Palmer takes the lead in “Alice,” a new film about an enslaved woman in 1800s Georgia who escapes plantation life and discovered the year is actually 1973.
The movie is inspired by the story of Mae Louise Miller, who says she escaped from captivity in 1960s Mississippi, 100 years after slavery was abolished in the United States.
Palmer has mixed reactions to the story.
“I think it was it was shocking, but it was not, like, surprising,” said Palmer. “It was like, oh my gosh, but then when you really sit down and think about it, and I think about just the stories I’ve heard growing
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