Keke Palmer reveals she never learned who Dick Cheney was after 2019 viral meme: 'It seemed like he wasn't worth the research.'
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- Keke Palmer said she did not know who Dick Cheney was during a 2019 interview with Vanity Fair.
- The moment became a viral meme, with many people quoting her phrase, "Sorry to this man."
- She now says she never researched Cheney, who served as VP in the George W. Bush administration.
Sorry to Dick Cheney, but Keke Palmer still doesn't know who that man is.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair about the many memes of her career, the "Nope" actress revealed she never bothered to figure out who the former Vice President was after failing to recognize him.
"I didn't even honestly do the research," Palmer told Vanity Fair. "I left him where he was at. I hate to say that. I really did."
Palmer went viral in 2019 during a Vanity Fair "Lie Detector Test" after she was asked whether her character on the Nickelodeon show "True Jackson, VP" was a better vice president than Cheney, who served under former President George W. Bush.
Once Palmer was presented with a photo of Cheney, confusion ensued: "Who the hell is?"
"Ooh, y'all are really testin' me on some stuff that I hate to say it, I hope I don't sound ridiculous, I don't know who this man is," Palmer said in 2019. "I mean, he could be walkin' down the street, I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man."
After clips of the video circulated the internet, people paired it with humorous pictures of people they did not recognize. Palmer even began to sell "Sorry to this man" merch.
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Now, Palmer says Cheney was never worth learning about anyway.
"Everybody was like, 'It was Dick Cheney!,'" Palmer told Vanity Fair. "And I'm like, still means nothing. The way people were coming up to me, telling me who he was, it seemed like he wasn't worth me doing the research on."
Palmer, a meme queen, has recently gone viral for not recognizing two more people — FBI agents Scully and Mulder from "The X-Files" — during another Vanity Fair interview promoting her new movie.
"And who the hell are they?" Palmer said.