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Lester Freamon) had a house in Baltimore in which he rented rooms to other cast members, including the recently deceased Reg E. Cathey. 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Is it going to be a sheeeeeeeee it Is it going to stop + Michael K. Williams, perennial fan favorite Omar Little, describes seeing Felicia Pearson for the first time and knowing was the quintessential Baltimore. Pearson, who served time for second degree murder, grew very close to Williams and has this great quote in collier argent gravé the book about first meeting Simon, Burns, and producer Nina Kostroff Noble: ain never been around all these white people. I was kind of nervous. in Baltimore was its own thing + collier argent best friend Michael B. Jordan and J. coque huawei D. Williams both grew up in Newark, New Jersey, collier argent pour pendentif and discuss how their childhoods weren really so different from what they saw in Baltimore. Jordan offers up this wisdom: been in one hood, you kind of sort been in them all. goed hoesje Some are different than others, but for the most part, poverty is poverty. + The bracelet homme de protection Hamsterdam focused narrative of season three sees Bunny Colvin trying collier argent tribal to designate specific drug zones in the Western District as a way to bring back normalcy for everyday citizens whose corners and communities have been overrun by the game. That guy is just hope right there. There a guy that living in the middle of nowhere. He taking time out of his day to come out and sweep his front stoop when every single house around is abandoned. It was a powerful image for me, that this guy did not give up. Mark Wahlberg, really + Andre Royo, who played the drug addict Bubbles (who finally climbed those stairs!), tells a story about how some Hollywood executives he met assumed that many of The Wire cast actually were drug users and drug dealers implicitly saying that they didn believe they were real actors. coque huawei Patronizing, right And aren you totally not surprised that Mark Wahlberg was one of those people As Royo tells it: saw him collier argent y at an HBO party sometime. He like, doing a good job. coque samsung Don fuck up. Don fall back on that shit. coque iphone I like, are you talking about, man I from the Bronx. my bad. YES, MARKY MARK, YOUR BAD. The legacy of the show lingers for cast and crew + There is some irony to the very concept of the show, says actress Deirdre Lovejoy, who played assistant state attorney Rhonda Pearlman and who heard from a district attorney she trailed during the show run that Sunday night in Baltimore, for three and a half years, bracelet homme 500€ the wiretaps would all go dead, and it is because all of the wiretapped people were watching The Wire. + Also ironic, but in a more bague or reglable upsetting way, is an anecdote from J. D. Williams, who played Bodie: are like, look so familiar. Police who don get it right away always think they arrested me. coque iphone I have to convince police all the time that they have not arrested me. coque iphone + If the show had continued, Burns and Simon would have wanted to do two more seasons: one about police corruption (which was exhibited by many characters throughout the run of the series, and has been more sharply in focus in real life since the Baltimore riots after the death of Freddie Gray) and one about immigration (in the past few years, there has been increasing Central American immigration into the city, which has led to ICE raiding certain neighborhoods). coque samsung But the battle with HBO was so constant that Simon, Burns, and the other producers considered the fourth and fifth seasons, which Simon successfully argued for after HBO effectively canceled the show after the third season, the best deal they could get. Just miscellaneous weird shit! + Tom Waits wanted to see what the show that was using his collier argent 35 cm song Down in the Hole was about and requested VHS screeners of episodes. bijoux pas cher But as producer Karen Thorson shared, after Waits received the tapes, they had to wait for his wife to set up the VCR, because he didn know how to do it. This has been your very unsurprising Tom Waits doesn story. + The fake penis given to James P. J. Ransone Ziggy character didn match his skintone and the difference was noticeable on camera, causing numerous touch ups from middle aged women would have to parure collier argent come over and shade in my fake penis they have to come over and airbrush it, Ransone shares about his experience with gros collier argent ethnique the makeup crew. coque huawei Between that and the pet duck with the diamond collar and the saucers of whiskey, yeah, Ziggy was a fucking trip. + Wisdom puts its most plainly: are two kinds of people in the world. People who have seen The Wire and people who haven seen The Wire.
