Wire Actors in other things

http://deadline.com/2018/02/comedy-central-corporate-season-two-renewal-1202302983/

lance reddick does comedy (straight man role presumably)

https://shadowandact.com/idris-elba-in-the-long-run-comedy-sky-first-look

idris elba does comedy

Clark Johnson:

as "Black Gang Leader" in Adventures in Babysitting

https://cdn.torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016_10_25clarkjohnson2.jpg

as "Jefferson" in the '80s Canadian cop show "Night Heat"

http://www.rickstv.com/midsouth/6.jpg

wallace is in black panther

avon in blade runner 2049

mcnutly in the square

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/931720/in-the-long-run-sky1-idris-elba-comedy-release-date-trailer-cast-plot-jimmy-akingbola

a comedy created by and starring Idris Elba

nah you're alright

Is it just me or is Dominic West's English accent getting better?

ok, I've been obsessed with Graham Nash's Innocent Eyes music video from 1986 this week. This won't be the last time I bring it up on ilx either. And I might be wrong about this, but the actor playing the boy here - is that Carcetti? Especially look at his facial expression around 0:37.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwQORT1T6k

The actor, Aidan Gillen, would have been 18 at the time. I can't find anything on his wikipedia page that would support him being in a (presumably) L.A.-based music video shoot.

also, he doesn't look anything like Aiden Gillen, and even looks more like the other main Queer As Folk dudes

https://contentforyoublog.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/queer-as-folk-biography-nathan-maloney-charlie-hunnam3.jpg

Sonja Sohn is great in High Flying Bird, though

I dunno. Maybe it was just the beady eyes and cheekbones. But he displays a couple of Carcetti-like (and even Littlefinger-like) facial expressions. Especially in those first 40 seconds during the living room sequence. The hair's obviously different, but it was the 80s and people did all kinds of shit with hair. I've never seen Queer as Folk, but I don't think he looks remotely like either of those two other dudes.

And you're probably right that it's not him, but I'd watched the video a few dozen times and every time his face came up, I was like "who the fuck is that?" And suddenly something about the look he gives around 0:37 really said Carcetti to me.

I didn’t watch the whole thing, just skipped to 0:37 tbh

Carcetti is Irish? That's almost more surprising than Stringer or McNutty being British.

Waiting for someone to tell me Lt. Daniels is from Dunfermline.

Guess you've never watched Game of Thrones

can’t believe someone named AIDAN GILLEN turns out to be Irish

I never got into Goblets of Fire or whatever.

and of course the guy on the right would grow up to have his ass aestheticized regularly on Sons of Anarchy

Leo Fitzpatrick plays in Maniac. One of the reasons I wanna see it.

Has Dominic West as Jean Valjean been deliberately ignored? Thought it was a BBC flagship production thing.

I believe the intent of this thread was to highlight Wire actors popping up unexpectedly in older stuff

Not noting that fairly famous actor Dominic West is still working

Clarke Peters is in the new BBC adaptation of His Dark Materia! 😮

Whoa, didn't know this was coming. Hope it's an improvement over the terrible Golden Compass film.

Same, and same.

http://i63.tinypic.com/1ny0rl.png

(michael kostroff in liar liar, typecast as a Partner)

I was a little wtf at Idris Elba being interviewed about his Coachella DJ set

Hasn't he been a DJ for a long time?

Indeed, it seems

Chris Bauer (Frank Sobotka with lots more hair) gets beaten up and kicked in the balls by Nic Cage minutes after the latter enters prison with John Travolta's skull under his face

meanwhile Travolta's FBI partner Robert Wisdom (Bunny Colvin but skinnier) is getting burnt to death at the Face/Off:Institute by Nic Cage with Travolta's face on his skull

nice

Couldn't find any previous mention of Burrell as the guard in the psychiatric prison in Silence of the Lambs.

No one seems to have mentioned Chad "Cutty" Coleman in The Expanse.

Bubbles in the Charlize Theron beer commercial

Most beer commercials have bubbles, tbrr

Clarke Peters rocking a not entirely unconvincing English accent in His Dark Materials.

Peters actually lived in London in the 70s and 80s, and in 1986 played a pretty despicable (but mostly silent!) pimp in Neil Jordan’s Bob Hoskins-classic Mona Lisa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swlUtEkXZ0

I just saw Wendel Pierce as Willy Loman on the West End stage in London - in a production that did nothing to change my opinion on the hokey 'Why you I oughta' qualities of that particular play and of stage acting in general. Still it was either that or pay 70 friggin' quid to watch West Ham play Leicester City.

wire actors in the wire: thx to a canny xmas present from my sister's boyf i am just abt to start watching the wire for the first time!!

ex editor of the wire watches the wire while listening to wire

I think "mark s finally watches the wire" deserves its own thread

Wendel Pierce also in a rather hopeless role as Alfre Woodard's husband in Clemency, but for a change it's good to see a male actor in the supportive/anguished spouse role.

tombot otm

can i fill the new thread with gifs from CATS (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr0A7TofowE

jellicle cops

Even though I'm the one who revived this thread I've never seen The Wire either!