The cast of HBO’s critically beloved show gathered for a reunion as part of the 2nd Annual Paley Festival in New York. Sorry, Stringer and McNulty fans: Idris Elba and Dominic West missed it, but sent videos.
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The cast and the behind-the-scenes team of The Wire gathered in New York City on Oct. 16 to talk through the five-year run of the critically acclaimed series. It never won any Emmys — much to the disappointment of fans — and didn't score huge ratings, but since it went off the air in 2008, the love affair with the Baltimore-set drama continues. The series' fandom has outlived even some of its biggest and most gripping characters — we're looking at you Idris Elba (who played drug lord Stringer Bell) and Michael Kenneth Williams (who played stick-up artist Omar, a cult figure in his own right).
At the PaleyFest event, cast members Wendell Pierce, Sonja Sohn, Seth Gilliam, Jim True-Frost, John Doman, Tristan Wilds, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., and Jamie Hector, joined series creator David Simon and executive producer Nina Noble. And they spilled the goods.
Nearly every character got an off-screen memorial service.
Sonja Sohn's Det. Shakima "Kima" Greggs wasn't supposed to live past Episode 6 of the first season — something she wasn't too happy about when she learned it from a woman who played one of her on-screen love interests. Sohn confronted creator David Simon about her character being killed off. He then shared with her that if she died, it'd be a great story arc. Then Simon shared with her that one of the HBO higher-ups loved her portrayal and wanted to keep Sohn around. So Kima lived.
Moving forward, Sohn would organize the cast every time someone was about to be killed off and most of them would gather while the actor shot their last scene. It was one of the many bonding sessions in which the sprawling cast would partake.
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Major William Rawls was gay. Perhaps.
Or maybe he just had an affinity for hanging out in gay bars. John Doman says that most fans didn't notice, but he shot a scene at a gay bar.
"Most people probably didn't notice Rawls in the gay bar," he said. "But for those who did notice... that is a question I get asked. They'll say, 'What about that scene in the gay bar? What was that all about?!' I think people have to decide if they think Rawls was actually gay or if he was just hanging out on some police business."
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