Skai Jackson on DWTS and Being a Twitter Meme

Hi. Hi, how are you? Congrats on being on Dancing with the Stars. So exciting.

Thanks.

Did you watch it all growing up? The show?

You know, I did watch the show. I would watch with my family a lot. And then there was a period where I didn't watch it because I just stopped watching TV overall. But I thought it was pretty cool that I got asked to do it this year.

What's your favorite? Do you like getting your makeup done, hair done, picking out the outfits? What's your favorite part?

You know what, my favorite would have to be the outfits. I like the outfits because they're all different for each person and they're custom tailored to you. And the creative team for wardrobe is just so amazing. So if you like something, you don't like something, they work with you. So I've been loving the outfits that they've been putting me in so far.

Well, one has been your favorite one?

Oh, my favorite one so far, I would say has been my tango dress, which was the all black. That was my favorite. And my second favorite was my samba outfit when it was orange and blue. I think it was like so fun with the colors.

Yeah. And what goes through your mind like when you're about to like start the dance, not rehearsals, but like when you're actually doing the show, like what are you thinking about?

I'm just really, really nervous. I mean, you can practice it so much, but it's just totally different when you're doing it in front of the judges and it's on live television. So that's another nerve-wracking thing which I experienced, but that's fine. Um, so yeah, what's going through my head? It's just get through the dance, take your time, slow down and just enjoy it. You know, it really goes by just so fast when you're doing it.

You're honestly so funny across social media. Like your Twitter is hilarious. Like you're so,

Thank you.

So for some of the memes that have been made about you, we're going to show you them and then like two pictures and you will react to them. Are you

Got it. compared to Meg with the one you were doing? Yes. And then one of her sitting.

You know what, I thought that was really, really funny when I saw that because she honestly does look like an older version of me in that picture. And we literally have the same color dress on, the same hair. So when I saw that meme, I saw it went viral on Twitter. Someone posted it. I was like, wow, that's crazy. And I love Meg too, so I think that's a good one.

Yeah. And then just that picture in general, did you, when this started becoming like a meme mainly on Twitter, did you pick up on it? Did you see right away?

You know what, I didn't see it right away and then I saw like a meme page posted it on Instagram and from there, that's when I saw like a bunch of people posting it. And honestly, I thought it was really funny more than anything. Like people thought I would probably get offended by it, but I have like, I'm really goofy. So I was like, this is cool and then everyone just like took it and ran with it.

Yeah, for sure. It's cool that like it's so cool that you are goofy, like you repost your own like the memes of you and everything. Like you're you're really. So it's good.

You know what, sometimes I like to make fun of myself. Like even when I literally fell on live television, like I just posted it because why not? Like it happened and it's actually really funny. Like I was upset in the moment because I had worked really hard on that dance. But now that I think and look back on it, it's like very funny that I accidentally pulled my dance partner's hair like that.

That was the next one we were going to show you because you had posted it on your Instagram. Um. Yeah. That one. The pulling the hair, yeah, that's really funny.

Yeah, that was really funny. And I know that I pulled his hair. I thought I pulled like, I grabbed onto his shoulder because I was just moving so fast and I wasn't like focused. And then I watched the video back, I was like, I literally ripped his hair out.

Did he, did he say anything afterwards or no?

No, because he didn't feel it. He said he didn't feel, like his hair was so gelled down. He didn't even feel when I pulled his hair. So that's why when I was like, I pulled your hair, he was like, what are you talking about? And I showed him and he was like, oh, you really did. He was like, honestly, I didn't even feel it.

Well, thank you so much for talking to us today.

Thank you. Thank you so much.