Starz casts newcomer Mekai Curtis to play a young version of 50 Cent's character in Power Book III: Raising Kanan

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Curtis will play an adolescent Kanan Stark in the Power prequel series. "Smart, driven and still naïve, Kanan’s world revolves around his mother, Raq, who raised him by herself," according to the official logline. "She is his everything.  At the same time, he is beginning to get a sense of not only the world around him, but his place in said world. Kanan wants to be just like his mother…and that’s the problem."