![]() That was hilarious and a bit of a full circle, funny nod to my childhood. Were you a Nancy Drew girl? “The Hidden Staircase” is featured on Yo-Yo’s bookcase. We share a lot, but we also differ in a lot of places as well. To everybody’s home! That’s what’s so fun about this movie: not only does it span across so many different genres and eras, but, because it’s so general, it’s also so very specific to our own experiences, our own neighborhoods within the diaspora. Was there any part that you viscerally responded to, because the second I saw Mount Zion Church on the funeral flyer, I was like, “This is quite close to home.” I also knew that Juel was a first-time director, so I’m imagining, “If this is what he’s got to say, his vision overall is going to be out of this world.” Once I spoke to him about it, that solidified for me like, “Nah, I want to be a part of this, for sure.” It was just so fun, smart, wild and weird that I wanted to be a part of it. Read on as Parris details her experience of donning a new type of superhero suit for the mystery caper. Teyonah Parris as Yo-Yo, Jamie Foxx as Slick Charles and John Boyega as Fontaine in “They Cloned Tyrone.” Parrish Lewis/Netflix © 2023. The first public screening took place as the opening night selection of the American Black Film Festival in June, with the crowd roaring generously in recognition of the movie’s subtle nods to varied authenticities of Black communities. It was a lengthy process to get the movie made, with nearly five years going by between Parris receiving the script, filming (which took place amid the COVID-19 pandemic) and the finished product. That was not something I would reference in my own life, but she loves Kevin Bacon honey.” “I was like ‘Juel is definitely gonna come over here and say, ‘Okay, that’s a little too much.’ But he didn’t,” Parris recalled, laughing again.Īnother quirk: Yo-Yo is also a little obsessed with Kevin Bacon’s 2000 thriller “Hollow Man.” She said: “I had seen it, but that’s one of Yo-Yo’s joints. Yo-Yo can best be described as Nancy Drew by way of Pam Grier’s Foxy Brown, with Parris hitting Grier’s power lunge poses on set to prove it. “And being able to slip into Yo-Yo has been a wild ride.” ![]() “We’re doing everything,” Parris said, describing the tone. ![]() Co-written by Juel Taylor and Tony Rettenmaier, with Taylor making his directorial debut, “They Cloned Tyrone” is mashup of action, comedy and drama with a modern take on the Blaxploitation genre. 3 movie globally, with 13.1 million hours viewed). ![]() “They Cloned Tyrone” launched in select theaters on July 14 and debuted on Netflix on July 21, where it currently ranks as the No. You carry your face and how you communicate with people differently when you have on green lipstick.” “I walked a different way because of the heels and the thigh-high boots. It’s “the bow on the package,” Parris explained. In addition to the “chap-boots,” Yo-Yo’s signature look also features a cropped orange fur coat and leopard pants, capped by her voluminous, curly hairdo. ![]()
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