Wire Actors in other things

Rhonda Pearlman played an FBI agent on last weeks Law and Order CI. I really hoped she was going to be an assistant DA.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/prison_economy_spirals_as_price

Lester turns up (and is mildly amusing) in godawful Paul Dano/Zooey Deschanel indie rom-com Gigantic

clay davis was in a really good episode of svu i caught on usa the other day, playing the ex-husband of a raped police officer

in hackers i was more distracted trying to remember where i'd seen the gay dude before -- it was as sally-cant-dance in Con Air -- and by it being pretty terrible.

Reg E Cathey was really good in Oz.

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Fellow also got taken to dinner by Michelle Pfeifer. Can't relate to a straightforward yes/no critical stance on hackers

can't believe i just sat through awful teen slasher flick Prom Night. also can't believe Ziggy and Stringer are in it... as cops.

I watched Nick and Norah last night (shut up!); Burrell is in it.

it's been driving me nuts (and it may have been mentioned and I just missed it) but I finally realized:

http://www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/a-different-world.jpg

Clay Davis in Goodfellas

Kadeem Hardison is in The Wire?

Clarence Royce!

jk jk jk

tho i kinda wish they had picked kadeem to play carcetti in retrospect

Dean Winters would have made an awesome Carcetti.

i would support a "recast the wire" thread.

if you started it, I would contribute.

I will, but am going to have to fight my natural inclination to post/put up with horribly formed "jokes" of the "Miley Cyrus as Snoop" variety

Whitley = Snoop

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Recast 'The Wire'

herc is in 'miami vice'

Levy as a teacher in Veronica Mars.

Bunny Colvin as a vengeful angel on Supernatural.

dominic west narrated a documentary on 100 years of the girl guides on bbc4

did he do it in the character of mcnulty?

no

pity

frank sobotka as ace pool player in sweet and lowdown

did he do it in mcnulty's fake british accent bc that was ace
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I watched that "Obsessed" movie with Idris ... he looks better with facial hair than without. Psycho stalker chick was not nearly as accomplished as the one in Season 2 of Dexter.

Brianna Barksdale in some trailer forget what it was. Fame maybe?

just saw Frank Sobotka holding a train hostage on some random TV show on A&E. Probably a CSI, couldn't be bothered.

the "stuff that terrified you as a kid" thread reminded me that carcetti's advisor, reg e. cathey, was a cast member of Square One.

Here he's a rapping judge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qopIOUYZ7cE

i just got to the part in oz where reg e cathey comes in and he still terrifies me.

yeah he was in the opening credits in the vid i posted above, i didn't even remember him, the only people i remember from that show were the mathnet cops

"I don't dig bunk."

D'Angelo smoking ice and playing russian roulette high with an undercover agent portrayed by an Australian underwear model, in Patrick Swayze FBI-veteran-on-the-edge series The Beast.

amazing

well maybe not 'amazing', but seeing burrell in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is probably going to be good for a laugh.

This thread is great, but I can't even believe no-one has mentioned Bunk as the Republican Lexus dealer who gets booted off the bus in Spike Lee's Get On the Bus! (Wendall Pierce also appears as himself in Lee's Katrina doc.)

whoever said the thing about the end of 8MM being hilarious if you see it after knowing Frank Sobotka OTM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDXkDZI7kCo

That soundtrack is perfect

Clark Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op3JksjPw6Y

Cdn TV movie from a few yrs ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um2ZFg6jbwg

Bodie hijacks a truck with Brendan in the 2nd episode of the Sopranos!

Carver was in Starship Troopers

― clotpoll, Saturday, 11 July 2009 15:22 (2 months ago)

Was just watching this, and I said "wow, apart from Neil Patrick Harris, I think this is the best thing any of these actors ever wound up being in," which I figured would probably be untrue based on some older character actor, and not because Carver popped up in the next scene.

haha wait, I had forgotten Rue McClanahan was in it, too

it = Starship Troopers and not, sadly, The Wire

Avon Barksdale in 'Next Day Air'