Ice Cube responds to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actually being Black

It’s a busy ol’ summer at the cinema. Amidst theBarbieandOppenheimermania, you may have missed the fact thatTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhemis set to release on 2 August.

Let’s not forget thatMission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1andIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destinyare still out, plusHaunted Mansionis on the way - which I’m pretty excited for. All in all,cinemas are thriving. Let’s hop back toMutant Mayhemthough. The turtles’ latest outing stars John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Paul Rudd, Post Malone, and Giancarlo Esposito, just to name a few. The film sees the group attempting to track down a mysterious crime syndicate when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them. The cast were in the midst of promoting the film before the SAG-AFTRA strike was called, and Ice Cube responded to a major long-running fan theory.

Take a look at the trailer forTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhembelow.

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In a newinterviewwith our friends over at UNILAD, Ice Cube weighed in on the revelation, and he had a very different take on the matter. “Really? Is that right?” he said, responding to the theory. “How do you know that from a turtle? The mutants, they [their] own race, that’s the problem, you know, that they’re minorities in New York, too, so they gotta fight for they rights too. So, they may be offended that you call them Black!”

“Yeah, you might hear from the mutant society of, you know, ugly things, you know what I’m saying, they got an organisation that might wanna get at you,” he added.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhemlands in cinemas on 2 August.

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