Keke Palmer’s SAG Awards dress was once worn by fellow scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis
Keke Palmer’s gown for the 2025 SAG Awards had some seriously scary history.
None other than Jamie Lee Curtis, the actress known for playing Laurie Strode, the target of Michael Myers in the spine-tingling Halloween films, previously wore the 1985 Chanel gown to the first American Cinematheque Award Salute, which was a tribute to Beverly Hills Cop star Eddie Murphy, on February 28, 1986.
Photos from that night, taken by Getty Images, show that, like Palmer, Curtis wore the strapless, black velvet dress with black opera gloves.
Palmer also presented an award with Colman Domingo, a SAG Award nominee for Sing Sing. The actress first attended the show 20 years ago, according to E!, when she was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her work in the star-studded TV movie The Wool Cap, which costarred William H. Macy, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, and Catherine O’Hara. She was all of 11.
Back then, Palmer also appeared in movies such as Akeelah and the Bee and Barbershop 2: Back in Business, as well as TV series including Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP and Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff 90210.
Like Curtis, some of her most famous work as an adult has been in the horror genre. Not only did she appear in six episodes of the 2019 show Scream: The TV Series, but Palmer portrayed Emerald Haywood in Nope, the acclaimed 2022 movie from writer-director Jordan Peele about horse wranglers grappling with the appearance of a UFO.
Palmer has said that she admires the genre.
“We all have such extreme opinions about horror, but horror is one of the most… It can be so underrated — and I hate the term underrated, because the real ones know,” she told the U.K.’s Metro in October 2022.
She added, “I love scary stuff, so I was just very excited to see what kind of scary vibe is this that I’m going to get a chance to partake in. And then the real haunting came, which is, ‘I’m going to Jordan Peele movie and everybody will see it, so I’ve got to be on point.”