It’s unlike anything he’s done before, especially Menace‘s Caine, the part that launched and in many ways cursed his career. He’s playing a mad scientist and he could not be happier about it. He’s filming an untitled short film directed by his best friend, Jamie Foxx, for Canon’s Project Imaginat10n campaign. Twenty years later, 41-year-old Tyrin Turner 1 is wandering around a creaky house in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park neighborhood clutching a pair of prosthetic legs. “He’s like a ghetto celebrity, a ghetto rock star. “Tyrin Turner is like a street legend,” he said. ![]() ![]() In 2009, I asked Allen Hughes, the codirector of Menace II Society, about Turner. Janet Jackson even told him he had “some of the sexiest lips ever saw.” Then, he disappeared from view. By the time he was 22 years old, he’d starred in one of the most iconic films of the decade, befriended rising filmmakers, and been feted with nominations and acclaim. ![]() Turner was in a rare and coveted position. His warm smile made him a heartthrob, and yet he burns with violence throughout the film. Turner’s quizzical expression conveyed all the awe and bewilderment of a teenager enraptured by South-Central gang life. Turner mesmerized in Menace as Caine, a crack dealer and a killer, an aspiring father figure and a confused teen. He belonged at “the Big Show,” Ebert said. Turner didn’t win the Spirit Award, but Roger Ebert pulled him aside that night and told him he should have been up for an Oscar. Nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Menace II Society, a chill ran down Turner’s spine as his name was announced alongside the likes of Jeff Bridges, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Matthew Modine. Everything peaked for Tyrin Turner at the 9th Annual Independent Spirit Awards.
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