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"Barbershop: The Next Cut" sees lead Calvin, played by
musician-cum-actor Ice Cube, invite a beauty salon to share
their working space.
The film, which co-stars Eve, Anthony Anderson and Nicki Minaj,
sees the staff of the now-unisex salon organize their workplace
as a safe haven for local people to sort out their issues, and
soon their idea begins to make a difference.
"Well you know whatever it can do to help, whatever it can do to
help adults get into the lives of the youth, fathers getting
into the lives of their sons, mothers getting into the lives of
their daughters. We're hoping that it will do that," Ice Cube
said at the film's premiere.
"We're hoping that the youth look at this movie and at a young
age make the right decisions ... We think the movie has the
power to do that and that's why we did it."
Cedric the Entertainer returns as elderly joker Eddie and at
Wednesday's premiere spoke about the importance of comedy.
"If you had the opportunity to say something funny whilst saying
something important, people will then hear the message without
feeling like you're preaching to them, like you're stomping it
to them and I think that's what this movie does," he said.
"Barbershop: The Next Cut" goes on release from April 15.
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