The Wire: what the cast did next!

[Melinda]

"Like a banshie that wails in the night"
"I want to walk into your eyes, into your skin and bones"

I like it.

He's a crooner! A broke down crooner!

Clarke Peters is an accomplished musical star.

Lance and Clarke- The Wire Singers; they'll clean up on the wedding and Bar Mitzvah circuit!

 

[emanymton]

Who's the ostrich man him up there ^

I need series 5!!!

No series 5 turns a bit strange and ostrich man is a new character and is rather like bumblebee man from the Simpsons.

 

[Orang Utan]

i can send it to you if you like?

yes, that man up there. he looks like an ostrich. at a push, an emu.

who?

 

[foo]

um...who i was replying to you numpty Biddley Bee.

 

[Orang Utan]

yeah, i think that is clearly where his accents from. it was more shocking than first hearing David Tennant being all scots tho

I wasn't surprised by that - must have heard him speaking naturally before he did Dr Who.

 

[Orang Utan]

um...who i was replying to you numpty Biddley Bee.

no, who is ostritch man?

 

[belboid]

I wasn't surprised by that - must have heard him speaking naturally before he did Dr Who.

yeah, he uses his 'natural' voice in Blackpool - but I assumed that that was the one he was putting on! Cant remember what he sounded like in Duck Patrol

 

[foo]

Orang

oh i see the man in your OP. Daniels.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh right - cos he has a long neck and walks funny?

 

[foo]

i think the casting in the Wire is the best i've ever seen. most of the actors i'd never come across before (having not watched Homicide), which i found refreshing - and i think most are absolutely stunning choices.

it's made me want to be a casting agent in my parallel, more successful and zingy, life.

so McNulty's a posho eh i'd never have known. i think he did good.

 

[foo]

Oh right - cos he has a long neck and walks funny?

why else?

he looks like an ostrich....well i think so anyway. is that a really odd thing to say then?

 

[Orang Utan]

You're really odd

 

[belboid]

"West was born into an Irish Catholic family in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England to George West, who owned a plastics factory, and to Moya, a housewife. West attended Eton College and Trinity College, Dublin."

 

[foo]

You're really odd

ok.

 

[Melinda]

i think the casting in the Wire is the best i've ever seen. most of the actors i'd never come across before (having not watched Homicide), which i found refreshing - and i think most are absolutely stunning choices.

it's made me want to be a casting agent in my parallel, more successful and zingy, life.

so McNulty's a posho eh i'd never have known. i think he did good.

The casting is ace! Every time I come across one of them in a different role, it shocks me a little! I keep seeing Briana and Lt Daniels in things.

Briana was in the West Wing!

 

[SpookyFrank]

And because it bends my brain to see Lee Adama with a British accent.

Lee Adama is British

 

[Melinda]

Lee Adama is British

Yep
However, his acting powers all downloaded into his accent, leaving nothing but wood for the rest of his performance

He is married to the British nurse who appears along side Cottle in sickbay.

 

[Biddlybee]

i can send it to you if you like?

yes, that man up there. he looks like an ostrich. at a push, an emu.

ooh, that's an offer I might not be able to refuse - been getting itchy

Lee Adama is British

Briana was in the West Wing!

^^ I've no idea who they are

 

[foo]

Biddly, logging off in a sec. pm me your address

 

[Biddlybee]

Will do

 

[killer b]

i heard mcnulty on 'private passions' on radio 3 at the weekend... it was a shock.

his accent keeps slipping when i watch the wire now - didn't notice that at all before the weekend.

 

[kropotkin]

Daniels walks like Robocop and looks a little bit like shrunken head man in Beetlejuice

Fact!

 

[emanymton]

i heard mcnulty on 'private passions' on radio 3 at the weekend... it was a shock.

his accent keeps slipping when i watch the wire now - didn't notice that at all before the weekend.

There was one moment, in season 3 I think, where it hit me like a sledgehammer but otherwise I don't notice it that much, although I've hear others say the same as you

 

[butchersapron]

There was one moment, in season 3 I think, where it hit me like a sledgehammer but otherwise I don't notice it that much, although I've hear others say the same as you

You should hear his accent in that new Punisher film - pure Kinky John.

 

[DotCommunist]

Marlow Stansfield shows up in Heroes as a baddies

 

[Melinda]

Marlow Stansfield shows up in Heroes as a baddies

Its the scar and the dead eyed 'do it or dont' stare innit.

 

[DotCommunist]

Its the scar and the dead eyed 'do it or dont' stare innit.

Yeah I think Marlow would have to work pretty hard to convince me if he was playing a good guy.

e2a

he has shark eyes

 

[Melinda]

Shark eyes, perfect description.

That whole bit when he was 'romancing' the Barksdale moll was downright creepy. And he was trying to be charming and affable!

 

[mhendo]

Not sure if you lot over there get Damages, the crime drama starring Glenn Close.

Anyway, we're half-way through the second season over here, and Clarke Peters (Lester Freamon) and John Doman (Bill Rawls) both play fairly major characters. And David Costabile (Thomas Klebanow, Managing Editor of The Sun in Season 5) has been in both seasons of Damages.

Apparently Idris Elba (Stringer Bell) is going to be making a guest appearance on the American version of The Office later this season. According to news sources, they've signed him for 6 episodes.

Lance Reddick (Cedric Daniels), as well as having a MySpace page and a budding musical career D), is currently starring on a sort of X Files-ish show called Fringe, about FBI agents who investigate unexplained phenomena. I haven't seen an episode, but the ads make it look truly dire.

I was also quite surprised to see Domenick Lombardozzi (Herc) show up in an episode of Entourage this season. Paul Ben-Victor (Spiros Vondopoulos) also was in an episode this season, as a movie exec.

Just before i left Baltimore last summer, Maria Broom (Marla Daniels) was doing a local show highlighting aspects of Baltimore life. It looked pretty awful, and i felt bad for her.

 

[Orang Utan]

Paul Ben-Victor is in John From Cincinnati playing a comedy sidekick to a Hawaiian drug dealer played by Charlie Utter from Deadwood