![]() There are so many fun pop culture references in this film but the theme of Yo-Yo being this Black Nancy Drew type comes up the most. ![]() Uproxx chatted with Parris prior to the start of the SAG/AFTRA strike about fighting for her spot in the film, keeping up with the comedy of Jamie Foxx, and how her biggest role – motherhood – is beginning to change her career on-screen. ![]() But no matter how capable Yo-Yo is, she’s dosed with just enough pragmatism to recognize the ridiculousness of her situation – that investigating clones and government suits and secret laboratories never goes well for women like her. Parris wholeheartedly embraces the role of reluctant amateur sleuth in the film, solving sinister riddles and breaking into underground bunkers with the kind of bravado you’d expect from an actor set to star in one of the year’s most anticipated superhero team-ups. Someone’s been tweaking the recipes of the fried chicken, the grape drink, and the hair relaxer in a wild plot to suppress an unsuspecting Black community and, as usual, it’s up to a Black woman to figure out why. And, as the stoic, brooding drug dealer Fontaine, Boyega is too weighed down by past demons to be of use to anyone, let alone his neighbors in the Glen who find themselves on the wrong end of a government conspiracy. As the charismatic pimp Slick Charles, Foxx is only out for himself. In that, she’s a bit of a foil to her co-stars Jamie Foxx and John Boyega. Her character, a wise-cracking, street-smart sex worker named Yo-Yo, is the film’s low-key hero – a woman with dreams and ambitions that never outweigh her need to help her community. ![]() In Netflix’s absurdist sci-fi comedy, They Cloned Tyrone, Teyonah Parris may not sport spandex or a cape, but she still saves the day. ![]()
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