Actress and songstress Keri Hilson talks her new Christmas film, 'Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding,' in an exclusive interview with Distractify.
There’s no position like home for the holidays, and this is very true whilst you come from hip hop royalty.
Last year, VH1’s Hip Hop Family Christmas offered audience to the Nixons — a close-knit family of celebrities who waded thru family drama to discover the actual spirit of Christmas. And on Wednesday, Nov. 30, the primary family of hip hop is returning to the small screen.
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Produced through Jamie Foxx, Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding sees the Nixon family spiral into chaos as they prepare to marry off certainly one of their very own.
Jessica, the bride-to-be, is played by means of songstress Keri Hilson, who dished about her new Christmas movie in an unique interview with Distractify. Here’s what she mentioned!
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‘Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding’ isn’t your moderate Christmas film, in step with Keri Hilson.
“I love seeing Black folks resolving issues. I really like seeing Black folks therapeutic issues and overcoming demanding situations as a family,” Keri mentioned of her new Christmas movie. “Besides the hijinks and the comedy, I feel that that is one of the most issues that keeps the sequels greenlit, to be truthful.”
“I think it's that realness is the authenticity,” she added. “It's the heartstrings that we tug at in between the humorous moments that individuals are gravitating against and sought after to look extra of.”
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As for whether or no longer the franchise will go back next year, Keri certain hopes so.
“I would like to look it as a chain, even though now not another film. I feel it could be something magical because we in actuality love each other,” Keri told us. “We love working together.”
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Keri Hilson mentioned the cast of ‘Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding’ have been “inseparable off digicam.”
The sumptuous mansion used because the backdrop in Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding additionally served as homebase for the solid, who Keri mentioned were “inseparable off digital camera.”
“Literally, once we're intended to be breaking and going to our spaces or our trailers, like we are nonetheless sitting together chatting, speaking, having our food in combination as a family,” Keri advised Distractify.
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Among the star-studded lineup of solid contributors who reprise their roles in the sequel film were Redman, Bow Wow, and MC Lyte — every of whom is known in their own proper.
“I was thankful for the opportunities to understand these people on a human level and now not just the legends that you simply understand them to be,” Keri went on. "They happen to be a really well-rounded, very down-to-earth, good human being group of people.”
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However, the Hip Hop Family Christmas franchise isn’t the first time Keri and her onscreen fiancé Ne-Yo have collabed. In fact, Ne-Yo was featured on Keri’s debut album, In A Perfect World.
In the years since Keri and Ne-Yo first met, their friendship has tremendously blossomed, which, according to Keri, made the kissing scenes in the film “quite awkward.” She added, “Because we are truly friends. He's someone that sent me his first child's picture in the hospital after birth.”
“The first kiss that we encountered was our first scene in combination last year. In the script, there was once such a lot kissing,” the Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding actress said with a laugh. “We have been identical to, yeah, we gotta do that. We avoided it as long as we possibly could.”
Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding airs on VH1 on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at Eight p.m. EST.
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