THRILLER AND COMEDY films like Netflix’s They Cloned Tyrone are the perfect source material for a game of What Would You Do? The scenarios the characters face are usually so supernaturally outlandish that you never have to worry about actually encountering the kind of nightmares that they do — but what happens when real-life events begin to resemble a potential plot line? John Boyega and Teyonah Parris have your answers. The They Cloned Tyrone stars join Rolling Stone for the latest episode of What Would You Do with concrete guidance for even the most paranoid concerns — like whether a viewer should continue eating rice that she’s pretty sure is actually seasoned styrofoam or whether another’s cheating boyfriend is stealing clothes from their closet so an Instagram stalker can replicate their life. “I’m gonna need you to let that go, Rachel, that just can’t be healthy,” Parris tells one viewer who wrote in about potentially being actively poisoned by her favorite lunch spot with fake rice, but not wanting to have to find an entirely new place to eat. “I think that you should send it to the lab. And then also — maybe give people the benefit of the doubt — keep eating the rice, the styrofoam rice if that’s what you want to call it, until you see the results. Because obviously, you’re

“A PIMP, A ho, and a drug dealer walk into a bar,” says one character in They Cloned Tyrone, writer-director Juel Taylor’s conspiracy thriller/comedy/cautionary tale. It should be noted that the person making this statement is white, racist as hell, and works for a shady branch of the government that you won’t find on the books anywhere. He’s also played by a well-known actor, whose identity we won’t spoil. The villain is describing the film’s trio of heroes, Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx), Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris), and Fontaine (John Boyega) — all of whom someone might have respectively (and very reductively) described as a peddler of flesh, a woman of the night, and a pharmaceutical entrepreneur. Because this is uttered at the movie’s halfway point, we know they contain multitudes. But in this bad guy’s eyes, and maybe to some blinkered viewers as well, they’re simply manufactured caricatures. Or maybe stereotypes.