A$AP Rocky continues to flex his acting muscles. The Harlem-born rapper and style icon is starring alongside Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a dark dramedy directed by Mary Bronstein and set to hit theaters on October 10.
The film just dropped its first trailer, giving audiences a peek into its chaotic, emotionally charged world. Byrne stars as Linda, a psychotherapist and mother who’s trying to hold it all together but is slowly spiraling as her personal and professional life unravels around her.
Between a missing person, a mysteriously sick child, an absent husband, and her deteriorating relationship with her own therapist (played by Conan O’Brien), Linda’s got her hands full.
Enter A$AP Rocky. He plays James, a neighbor who seems like he might know too much and might be just the kind of chaos Linda doesn’t need. In one scene from the trailer, Rocky’s character pops in with an offer: “Yo, crazy pants, I was gonna partake in surfing the web for some things that I’m into.”
It’s unclear whether James is a comedic sidekick, an unlikely savior, or something more sinister, but Rocky’s delivery is pure gold.
The cast is stacked, with Christian Slater and Danielle Macdonald rounding things out, and the film already made waves at Sundance earlier this year. Byrne even walked away with the Silver Bear for Best Lead Performance at the Berlin Film Festival, so expectations are high.
This is Rocky’s second major film role this season. He’s also co-starring in Spike Lee’s upcoming Highest 2 Lowest, opposite Denzel Washington, which drops in theaters August 22 before heading to Apple TV+ on September 5. Rocky is pulling double duty on that one; he’s also contributing two new songs, Trunks and Both Eyes Closed, to the official soundtrack, out August 15.
Spike Lee already gave Rocky his flowers, telling Jimmy Fallon, “Don’t sleep on A$AP. In this film, Denzel and A$AP go toe-to-toe. What’s interesting is… I always thought A$AP looked like he could be Denzel’s son. There’s a big resemblance.”
Catch If I Had Legs I’d Kick You in theaters October 10.
