On Thursday, Mario Lopez's discussion with original gangster Ice-T and his wife of over 10 years, Coco Austin, will air on NUVOtv on his interview series "Mario Lopez: One on One."

"This week's episode of 'Mario Lopez: One on One' featuring Ice-T and his wife Coco marks the first time Mario has interviewed a couple on his show," Rene Aguirre, NUVOtv vice president of programming, said in a statement to Latin Post. "Ice-T and Coco are popular with our audience, and I think viewers will be pleased with the chemistry between Mario and Ice-T, as well as the energy that Coco brings."

In the episode, Coco takes a walk down memory lane, discussing her life before marrying Ice-T in 2001 and the debut of their popular E! reality show, "Ice Loves Coco."

When she was 14-years-old, Coco began modeling.

"When I first started, I try out at 14-years-old [at] Beverley Hills Studios; there was a contest. They were picking five people," she told Lopez in Thursday's episode.

The California native also discussed her time with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. According to "Mario Lopez: One-on One," Coco and Hefner met in 1999 and subsequently worked together on Playboy Mansion events and parties for six months.

"I'm 35 now, so to say that seems like a lifetime ago," Coco said.

Lopez will also speak to Ice-T, who went from one of the hardest rappers of the 1980s with songs like "Cop Killer" and albums like "Home Invasion," to a successful acting career.

"I don't really have any regrets," Ice-T said in the interview.

In the 1990s, Ice-T began delving into acting with movies including 1991's "New Jack City" and 1995's "John Mnemonic," according to IMDb.

Ice-T secured himself as a legitimate actor when he joined NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola. The show is still on the air.

According to the rapper-turned-actor, doing "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" was the smartest decision he could've made for his career.

"'Law & Order' was definitely the smartest move I ever made because the music business changed tremendously in those years that I've been on that show," Ice-T said to Lopez. "And what I did was I jumped to another vehicle. My fans that were fans of me matured. Now they have kids and they watch the show."

Just because Ice-T loves being on TV doesn't mean he has put down the mic forever, however. In fact, just a taste of Ice-T's musical influence was given this year when Body Count, the heavy metal band that Ice-T co-founded in the 1990s with guitarist Ernie C., released "Manslaughter," their first album since 2006.

Ice-T said that his fans are dying for more of his music.

"So now after being out of the loop for so long they're hungry," he said. "They're like, 'Ice, make another record, make another record ... I wanna show my kids what it sounds like.'"

Luckily for his fans, Ice-T has had enough time off from the music scene.

"So I'm like OK, this 15 years has cleaned my palette and has made me hungry for the stage," he said. "So I'm about to return, you know, and hit 'em in the head with that hardcore that they miss. So I'm ready."

In February, Ice-T announced that his and Coco's reality show is over so that the pair can work on a talk show with Ryan Seacrest Productions, The Hollywood Reporter reported.

"The reason we cut the 'Ice Loves Coco' show is because reality TV, you can only do so much with reality TV," he said via his podcast, Ice-T: Final Level. "When you're doing reality television, at some point, you start to loop."

"Ice Loves Coco" was on E! for three seasons.

"Producers will start saying, 'Well, let's put Ice on a horse,'" Ice-T said. "We had done pretty much everything we could do, so me being in the business for 25 years, I said, let's switch reels."

Check out an exclusive preview of Coco and Ice-T's interview (as well as some throwback pictures of Coco, in the clip below):

Ice-T and Coco's interview on "Mario Lopez: One-on-One" airs Thursday on NUVOtv at 10 p.m.

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