Michael K. Williams walked into The Breakfast Club in 2016 and gave one of the most honest interviews any Wire actor has ever given — about Omar, about his own struggles, about the scar, about Baltimore. This is the real Michael K. Williams. Don't scroll past this.
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Michael K. Williams at The Breakfast Club — The Most Honest Wire Interview Ever Filmed
The Breakfast Club interview format is not designed for contemplation. It's fast, funny, occasionally confrontational, built around the rhythms of morning radio. When Michael K.
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HBO just dropped the official Wire 20th Anniversary Podcast hosted by Method Man — and Episode 1 with David Simon is the Wire origin story nobody has ever heard this completely. How did this show actually get made? Watch this and find out.
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Method Man played Cheese Wagstaff on The Wire. But before he was on the show, he was a fan — watching it the same way the rest of us did. In this podcast intro, he explains what it meant to him as a viewer, why he said yes to hosting the 20th anniversary, and what the show gave to hip-hop culture. This is real.
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Felicia Pearson — Snoop — sits down for her Wire at 20 interview and it is completely unlike any other Wire anniversary conversation. She came to the show from prison. She went back to Baltimore after. Everything she says about the show, about herself, and about what both of those things meant is something you need to hear.
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HBO released the official tribute to Michael K. Williams after his death in September 2021. It is four minutes long. It contains every major character he played. It has been viewed millions of times. If you haven't seen it, you need to. And if you have seen it, watch it again.
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Playing Omar Little changed Michael K. Williams' life — and he talked about exactly how on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2016. This is one of the most moving Wire interviews ever filmed. Watch it while you can.
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Wee-Bey Brice. One of The Wire's most quietly devastating characters. Hassan Johnson played him across four seasons and rarely talks about the show. In the Wire at 20 Official Podcast Episode 2, Method Man gets him talking — and what comes out is the most unexpected Wire interview of the anniversary.*
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