{"id":510120,"date":"2026-04-03T03:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510120\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:52:11","slug":"kid-cudi-directing-doe-movie-unveils-cast-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510120\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Cudi Directing ‘Doe’ Movie, Unveils Cast (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Scott \u201cKid Cudi<\/a>\u201d Mescudi is in production in Los Angeles on Doe<\/a>, his feature directorial debut, where he plays the title role, starring alongside Mark Webber<\/a> (Flesh and Blood), Leah McNamara<\/a> (Normal People), Brandon Scott<\/a> (Dead to Me), and Brandon Perea<\/a> (Nope).<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Mescudi, Doe explores themes of addiction and survival through the lens of a man living on the streets of Hollywood who, over the course of 24 hours, drifts through a series of encounters that pull him in and out of the cycles of his compulsion.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will feature original songs by Kid Cudi, who\u2019s exec producing alongside Karina Manashil under their Mad Solar banner, with Webber, Anthony Baldino, and Ryan Lacen producing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDirecting for me has been the ultimate dream of mine since I was a little boy,\u201d Mescudi told Deadline. \u201cI\u2019ve always been fascinated with film, and I\u2019ve been sharpening my sword for years waiting for this very moment. It\u2019s truly been the best experience filming this movie and I can\u2019t wait for the world to see a true work of passion and love, made with friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA Grammy-winning musician, record producer, and actor coming off the release of his eleventh studio album, Free, Mescudi comes to Doe after directing several of his own music videos, and teaming with Kenya Barris to create Entergalactic, the Emmy-winning Netflix special serving as a companion piece to his album of the same name. As an actor, Mescudi\u2019s also been seen in Ti West\u2019s horror trilogy consisting of X, Pearl, and MaXXXine, along with Adam McKay\u2019s Don\u2019t Look Up, and the lauded indies Meadowland and James White. He lent his voice to Young Love, Matthew A. Cherry\u2019s animated series for Max, and has also been seen in We Are Who We Are, Westworld, and How to Make It in America on HBO.<\/p>\n

\n\tMescudi is the subject of the Amazon doc, A Man Named Scott, and is also voices one of the leads in Jeron Braxton\u2019s upcoming animated feature Slime, which he\u2019s also producing, and for which he\u2019s creating an original soundtrack and score. His Mad Solar recently wrapped on its next film God Backwards, directed by Adam Mortimer, in which Mescudi stars opposite Jessica Rothe. He is repped by Three Six Zero, Brillstein, and The Team.<\/p>\n

\n\tWebber is repped by Nathan Culliver Management, Atlas Artists, Cameron\u2019s Management, and Schreck Rose Dapello; McNamara by The Artists Partnership and Luber Roklin Entertainment; Scott by Innovative Artists, Sweeney Entertainment, and Felker Toczek Suddleson; and Perea by CAA and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Scott \u201cKid Cudi\u201d Mescudi is in production in Los Angeles on Doe, his feature directorial debut, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[67350,178557,6491,25305,96,35961,178558,8556,178559,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-510120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-brandon-perea","9":"tag-brandon-scott","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-doe","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kid-cudi","14":"tag-leah-mcnamara","15":"tag-mark-webber","16":"tag-scott-kid-cudi-mescudi","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}