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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