The laughs were non-stop on the set of They Cloned Tyrone according to stars Teyonah Parris and John Boyega.
In the film a series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio (John Boyega, Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris) onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this mystery caper.
HipHollywood sat down with Parris and Boyega plus director Juel Taylor and producer Charles King (ahead of the writers strike) about shooting the film and laughing out loud thanks to Jamie Foxx.
In the film, Foxx plays Slick Charles a fast-talking pimp who is always complaining about the ungrateful, unreliable women he’s exploiting including Parris’ wisecracking Yo-Yo.
“I broke a couple of times and I think one of my breaks is actually in the film. I couldn’t hold it together,” admits Parris of one hilarious scene with Foxx.
“I’ve been a part of this or known about it for five years now. So the fact that it’s finally coming out and the world is going to see it is so special and so exciting. But we had a good, good time.”
Taylor, who makes his feature directing debut with his own co-written script said he welcomed any all in-put from Foxx during the filming process.
“He would ad-lib lines in between and I was like, please give me the good stuff,” he said. “Don’t be scared. Throw whatever you want in there. It’s going to make sense. And he has so many tricks up his sleeve to pull things out of scenes. And he always knows when and where it’s supposed to go.”
Boyega says it was also a dream not only working opposite Foxx, but also playing a character like Fontaine.
“I get excited when a character starts off one way. By the end of the movie, you have someone completely kind of changed, in a sense and ‘They Cloned Tyrone’, just gave us all of that and more.”
The film also stars David Alan Grier, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Tamberla Perry, Eric Robinson Jr. with Kiefer Sutherland.
They Cloned Tyrone is released on 21 July on Netflix
