Cliff Smith, known professionally as Method Man, will guest star in the United States CBS drama “Cupertino” as a rapper suing an artificial intelligence (AI) music studio over lost streaming revenue.
The Wu-Tang Clan member and actor will play Yungwood in the series, which premieres Oct. 8 and airs Thursdays on CBS.
Series details#
“Cupertino” is a David vs. Goliath legal drama. It follows a lawyer, played by Mike Colter, who is cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech startup.
The logline states:
“Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney (Rachel Keller) to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley.”
The cast also includes Ella Stiller, Busy Philipps, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Nik Dodani. Robert and Michelle King, creators of “The Good Wife,” “The Good Fight,” “Evil” and “Elsbeth,” are behind the series.
Method Man’s recent credits#
Smith starred as attorney David MacLean opposite Mary J. Blige in all four seasons of Starz’s “Power Book II: Ghost,” a role that earned him four consecutive National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards. Earlier this year, he starred alongside Kelly Rowland in Amazon MGM Studios’ romantic comedy “Relationship Goals.”
His acting credits also include “How High,” “Garden State,” “Soul Plane” and “Method & Red,” a short-lived Fox sitcom in which Method Man and Redman played fictionalized versions of themselves.
Smith is represented by Shauna Garr, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
