Keke Palmer recalls the differences between working at Nickelodeon and Disney as a child star (Exclusive)

Palmer opens up about how her work as a child star paved the way for her success today

Keke Palmer looks back at the roles that made her a household name.

Appears on The toasthosted by Claudia & Jackie Oshrythe 31-year-old actress discussed some of the parts that helped her break through in the industry. In an exclusive clip shared with PEOPLE, Palmer nodded Barbershop II and Akeelah and the Bee, before she looks back on her time on TV.

“What put Keke Palmer on the map as boooom was True Jackson, VP. My life was changed after that, baby,” she said of the Nickelodeon show.

Claudia noted that Palmer also starred in Disney’s Jump inand how rare it was for young stars of the day not to work exclusively with either network.

“Disney is really great when it comes to, not just the storytelling you see on the screen, but the storytelling in the company. They tell stories through marketing, through their people. They have the needles in the office,” Palmer said.

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“They’re literally like a whole universe, and I think it feels really good when you’re a kid because the magic doesn’t end. There’s an element of it being really, really fun to be a part of.”

Palmer later noted that “Disney has a way of making you feel, ‘I’m going to be here. This is something you want to be a part of.'”

When it came to Nickelodeon, “their pay was really great,” Palmer revealed, adding that the environment was “like, ‘Come in and get this check.’ It wasn’t about making it necessarily exciting.”

“One day we were doing this big promotional thing about all the new shows coming to Nickelodeon. We had to get slimed. Obviously, when you film things, you don’t just film it once. You film it multiple times times,” she said.

Explaining that she was in her “weave era,” Palmer continued, “When I tell you they slimmed me down, they had to wash it all out. I was under the dryer for hours just to stay the slime again? Oh dear, I hated that slime after that, it was too much.”

Hear more from Palmer on the November 19 episode of the toast, streaming starts at 1 p.m. ET.