Lamar Jackson is stepping into a brand-new arena.
The 28-year-old Baltimore Ravens quarterback will make his acting debut in an upcoming episode of Power Book III: Raising Kanan season 4, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.
Jackson will appear as a guest star in just one episode, playing a character named E-Tone, who is described as an “intimidating figure not to be messed with.”
In a statement, the 2024 NFL MVP tells PEOPLE, “I’m so excited for fans to see me in this new role and thrilled to be a part of Power Book III: Raising Kanan.”
He teases that E-Tone is “a deadly, dangerous character” and “you don’t want to get on his bad side!”
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While his role in the story is unclear, based on PEOPLE’s exclusive first-look photos, he’ll be involved somehow with Unique (Joey Bada$$), who is on a war path of sorts this season after a surprise resurrection in the season 3 finale.
The rapper, 30, told PEOPLE that he got to “reimagine the character” for season 4 as the long-term effects of the head trauma he suffered at his brother’s hands started to affect him.
“Let’s take the calm, charismatic, well-calculated fly dude and let’s make him unhinged,” he said of his approach to this season. “It felt different, but it was also very exciting … It was definitely a challenge that I was ready for.”
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Unique is “full of revenge” and “not thinking clearly,” he continued, “and he’s somehow convinced himself that everybody conspired against him.”
“[He’s] in a space where he hasn’t communicated with anybody, and he’s left alone to his thoughts, and then, as he kind of starts to creep back out into the real world, to kind of get a recon on what’s going on, he’s seeing it from the wrong perspective and it’s informing his decision-making in the wrong way.”
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New episodes of Power Book III: Raising Kanan season 4 premiere Fridays at 12 a.m. ET on Starz.
