{"id":144874,"date":"2025-01-19T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/svus-ice-t-and-his-family-are-obsessed-with-horror-films\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T13:00:11","slug":"svus-ice-t-and-his-family-are-obsessed-with-horror-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/svus-ice-t-and-his-family-are-obsessed-with-horror-films\/","title":{"rendered":"SVU\u2019s Ice-T and His Family Are Obsessed With Horror Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"92.623282718727\">\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3859784\" style=\"width: 300px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Ice T as Sergeant Odafin.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Art Streiber\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/ice-t\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ice-T<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s house, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/tag\/halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween<\/a> all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur whole family \u2014 we\u2019re horror fans,\u201d Ice-T, 66, told <em>Us Weekly<\/em> exclusively, explaining why he\u2019s obsessed with <em>Terrifier 3<\/em>. \u201cThis pushed the envelope to the point where [9-year-old daughter] Chanel dressed up as one character for Halloween.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Terrifier<\/em> film series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/the-strangers-and-more-horror-franchises-coming-back-in-2024-a-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which originally premiered in 2016<\/a>, is a slasher film telling the story of Art the Clown \u2014 and yes, he kills people. Ice-T\u2019s daughter dressed up as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DB4xEOoAKRH\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her own version of Art<\/a> in October 2024, per his wife, <strong>Coco Austin<\/strong>\u2019s Instagram. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/law-and-order-svu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Law and Order: SVU<\/em><\/a> star also took on the role of a killer clown for the holiday. It seems they were all inspired by this seriously scary film.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to music, which of course Ice-T is well versed in with a prolific rap career under his belt, the performer is a huge fan of The Delfonics.<\/p>\n<p>An old-school group, great music \u2014 it\u2019s from back when people actually sang, you know, three-part harmony,\u201d he explained to <em>Us<\/em>. \u201cIt just reminds me of growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.841191066998\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/ice-ts-daughter-hijacks-law-order-svu-set\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ice-T-daughter-Chanel-takes-over-Law-and-Order-SVU-set-1467232009.jpg?crop=0px%2C358px%2C2038px%2C1153px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"ce-T-daughter-Chanel-takes-over-Law-and-Order-SVU-set\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ice-T-daughter-Chanel-takes-over-Law-and-Order-SVU-set-1467232009.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/ice-ts-daughter-hijacks-law-order-svu-set\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Ice-T&#8217;s Daughter Hijacks &#8216;Law and Order: SVU&#8217; Set<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPhoto by Albert L. Ortega\/Getty Images Ice-T\u2019s 8-year-old daughter Chanel is following in her father\u2019s footsteps on the set of Law &amp; Order: SVU. The rapper, 66, and his wife, Coco Austin, shared adorable footage of Chanel\u2019s visit to the long-running crime drama\u2019s set via Instagram on Friday, August 2. Chanel looked right at home [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, Ice-T\u2019s interests go way beyond horror films \u2014 and oldies. He also cannot stop watching <em>American Greed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a show about white-collar crime and just greedy people,\u201d Ice-T explained to <em>Us<\/em>. \u201cThey take people\u2019s IRA savings, they take old people\u2019s money. They\u2019re cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a miracle Ice-T finds any time to sit down and relax since he\u2019s still starring as Sergeant Odafin \u201cFin\u201d Tutuola in <em>SVU<\/em>, a role he\u2019s held since 2000. The show is on season 26 and, according to Ice-T, he has no plans to stop starring in the NBC series.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:67.4%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium credit-added wp-image-3859783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"SVU s Ice T Is Always Celebrating Halloween Thanks to His Family s Obsession With Horror Movies 674\" width=\"1000\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SVU-s-Ice-T-Is-Always-Celebrating-Halloween-Thanks-to-His-Family-s-Obsession-With-Horror-Movies-674.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Virginia Sherwood\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see any reason why SVU can\u2019t go 30 [seasons],\u201d he told <em>Us<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/ice-t-thinks-law-and-order-svu-can-run-for-30-seasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclusively in June 2024<\/a>. \u201cI think the show will stay on as long as <strong>Mariska [Hargitay]<\/strong> wants to do the show. It\u2019s her show.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.290322580645\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/ice-t-questions-mariska-hargitay-about-svus-benson-and-stabler\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ice-T-Questions-Why-Olivia-Benson-and-Elliot-Stabler-Haven-t-Kissed-on-Law-Order-SVU-785.jpg?crop=248px%2C0px%2C1752px%2C988px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Ice T Questions Why Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler Haven t Kissed on Law Order SVU 785\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ice-T-Questions-Why-Olivia-Benson-and-Elliot-Stabler-Haven-t-Kissed-on-Law-Order-SVU-785.jpg?quality=78&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/ice-t-questions-mariska-hargitay-about-svus-benson-and-stabler\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Ice-T Questions Mariska Hargitay About SVU&#8217;s Benson and Stabler&#8217;s Near-Kiss<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tEven Ice-T thinks Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit characters Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler deserve a love story. \u201cY\u2019all haven\u2019t hooked up yet at all?\u201d Ice-T, 65, quipped to costar Mariska Hargitay during an interview for Entertainment Weekly published on Monday, February 5, about Benson and Stabler\u2019s onscreen relationship. \u201cClose, right? Almost a kiss?\u201d [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the time, the cast was still on a high from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/law-order-svu-recap-ice-ts-character-fin-gets-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their milestone 25th season<\/a>. Of course, Ice-T is currently well into season 26 with the rest of the cast \u2014 and they have a barrage of new viewers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.5\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think last season we caught a whole other wind of fans, and everybody got in it, and the ratings were great,\u201d Ice-T also gushed to <em>Us<\/em>, noting that he\u2019s \u201cvery fortunate\u201d that audiences are still watching.<\/p>\n<p><em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em> season 26 airs on NBC Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET and is streaming the next day on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Ice-T, pick up the latest issue of <em>Us Weekly<\/em>, on newsstands now.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/svus-ice-t-and-his-family-are-obsessed-with-horror-films\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice T as Sergeant Odafin. Art Streiber\/NBC In Ice-T\u2019s house, it\u2019s Halloween all the time. \u201cOur whole family \u2014 we\u2019re horror fans,\u201d Ice-T, 66, told Us Weekly exclusively, explaining why he\u2019s obsessed with Terrifier 3. \u201cThis pushed the envelope to the point where [9-year-old daughter] Chanel dressed up as one character for Halloween.\u201d The Terrifier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}