{"id":47095,"date":"2025-05-10T02:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=47095"},"modified":"2025-05-10T02:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:51:39","slug":"lamar-jackson-reveals-his-baltimore-ravens-teammates-reactions-to-his-acting-debut-on-power-book-iii-raising-kanan-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=47095","title":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson Reveals His Baltimore Ravens Teammates’ Reactions to His Acting Debut on Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two-time NFL MVP tells PEOPLE his teammates were “hype” to learn about his guest star role on the series \u2014 and reveals the other famous DM he received<\/p>\n

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Derrick Henry #22 and Lamar Jackson #8 of the Baltimore Ravens.<\/span>Credit :\u00a0<\/span>Scott Taetsch\/Getty<\/p>\n

La<\/a>mar Jackson\u00a0might have a new nickname on the field when the 2025 NFL season kicks off in September.<\/p>\n

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The Baltimore Ravens quarterback\u00a0made his acting debut in the penultimate episode of\u00a0Power Book III: Raising Kanan<\/em>\u00a0season 4<\/a>\u00a0on May 9, and as shocked as he was himself to get to make a guest star appearance, given he’s a big fan of the series, his teammates were even more surprised.<\/p>\n

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“They were hype. They were hype,” Jackson, 28, tells PEOPLE of his Ravens’ teammates reactions to the news of his acting debut.<\/p>\n

In fact, they’re so into that he reveals that they’ve taken to calling him by his character’s name. “They keep calling me E-Tone right now. They text me talking about ‘E-Tone’ and I’m like, chill out, man, chillax.”<\/p>\n

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“I’m cool with it, I like it,” he says of the excited response from his team.<\/p>\n

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Lamar Jackson and Joey Bada$$ in ‘Raising Kanan’.<\/span>Starz<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Ravens aren’t the only stamp of approval he got on his acting debut, though. Jackson also heard from none other than\u00a0C<\/a>urtis “50 Cent” Jackson, the original Kanan Stark on\u00a0Power<\/em>, after PEOPLE revealed that he would be making an appearance on the season.<\/p>\n

“After they broadcasted, they posted on social media, he DM’d me, he was like, ‘Let’s go,'” Jackson says.<\/p>\n

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His response to that DM? “You know, it’s 50 Cent. I mean, it’s 50 Cent, man, that’s dope. That’s dope as hell,” he recalls excitedly. “Hell yeah, I was hype as hell. I was hyped, man.”<\/p>\n

Ahead of the March news of his casting, the\u00a0two-time NFL MVP\u00a0says he “didn’t tell anyone” aside from his “close family,” so between when the news broke and when the episode aired two months later, he found that some fans were convinced the cameo was “made up.”<\/p>\n

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“A lot of people, they keep hitting me up on social media like, ‘You weren’t in episode seven, you weren’t in eight.’ I’m like, I believe they said I was going to be in [episode] nine,” he says, adding that the fans have been “waiting impatiently” to see him onscreen.<\/p>\n

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Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens poses for a portrait after winning MVP at the 13th Annual NFL Honors on February 8, 2024.<\/span>Todd Rosenberg\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During his brief appearance, Jackson played E-Tone, who was described as an “intimidating figure not to be messed with,” and got screen time with both Unique (Joey Bada$$) and Kanan (Mekai Curtis). In his first few seconds onscreen, he showed off just how deadly he was, too, as he killed David Kan (Yu Lu) for Unique in the bathroom of a club.<\/p>\n

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“I was really shocked with that part. When they told me, when I got to the dressing room, they were like, ‘You know what you’re going to be doing?’ I’m like, ‘Nah, no one told me anything.’ They were like, ‘Yeah, you’re going to be killing a guy at the club.’ I’m like, ‘What?'”<\/p>\n

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“I hope the world don’t think anything different of me, but it is what it is,” he says. “We’re just acting, it’s fun.”<\/p>\n

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Joey Badass as Unique and Lamar Jackson as E-Tone in ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ season 4.<\/span>Cara Howe\/Starz<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that he has this experience under his wing, Jackson is keen to do more.<\/p>\n

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“Oh, definitely,” he says of whether he’d be interested in other acting opportunities following his football career. “Yeah, I definitely can do it after the NFL, definitely. I can do it during the NFL off-season [too], you know what I mean? But for sure, post-NFL, definitely.”<\/p>\n

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Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Power Book III: Raising Kanan<\/em>\u00a0season 4 is now streaming on Starz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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