Kid Cudi will star in the forthcoming HBO series “How To Make It In America.”

“It was important to me early on to branch away from music and actually do something outside my comfort zone,” Kid Cudi explained. “When we were developing my character with the writers, I was telling them, ‘Man, I don’t want to be anything that has to do with music,’ just because that’s not really acting.”

The show is a comedy created by actor Mark Wahlberg. It features Cudi as one of the lead characters. According to the New York Observer, it will reveal how to achieve the American dream through three 20-something New Yorkers.

“I have a lead role,” Cudi said in an interview. “My character’s name is Domingo Dean. I actually named my character after both of my brothers — Dean, who lives in Phoenix, being one of them, and Domingo. My character’s kind of the comic relief. He’s really witty — a hopeless romantic but a player at the same time.”

The HBO series, with no scheduled premiere date as of yet, also stars Shannyn Sossamon, Luis Guzmán, and Lake Bell.

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