The Wire Cast Tweets Inside Stories, Memories Of Show During Marathon

The Wire Cast Tweets Inside Stories, Memories Of Show During HBO Marathon

Published on December 27, 2014

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If you are binge-watching The Wire on HBO Signature this weekend, now digitally remastered, being on Twitter makes the experience even better. Some of the actors and actresses have been live-tweeting during the marathon, reflecting on being part of a classic TV show and revealing things from behind the scenes. If you can’t keep up with both screens, don’t worry. We’ve collected tweets from everybody, from the people who played Bubbles, to Bodie, to Bunk.

SPOILER ALERT

Season 1

Bubbles (Andre Royo) was really nervous when he shot his first scene:

Herc (Domenick Lombardozzi) remembers a scene with Bubbles where a real rat crawled over their feet:

One of Bunk’s (Wendell Pierce) favorite moments? Interrogating D’Angelo (Larry Gilliam Jr.):

When it hits you that Day-Day (Donnell Rawlings) is also Ashy Larry:

Bunk recalled that he and Sergeant Landsman (Delaney Williams) had the ladies swooning over them on set. To which the sergeant responds:

Poot (Tray Chaney) revealed that the actor behind D’Angelo taught him a lot:

Lieutenant Daniels (Lance Reddick) chimed in with a salute to his fellow cast members:

Kima (Sonja Sohn) thought the building up to the death of Wallace (Michael B. Jordan) was a work of art:

Bunk revealed that whenever a cast member was killed off, everybody would come to their final scene and bid them farewell:

Bodie (JD Williams) has a pick for most underrated role on the show:

How many E’s does it take to spell the classic line from senator Clay Davis (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.)? He offers a number:

Season 2

Sapper (Brandon Tate) gave props to the actor behind Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer), and he responded that it’s all about the role:

Bubbles tweeted about director David Simon and the cast not receiving awards:

Ziggy Sobotka (James Ransone) provides a very blunt thought on why people dislike his character:

How much porn did Sergeant Landsman keep in his desk? Think about it in terms of pounds:

One of the film crew members has a photo with Cheese (Method Man):

What about the dorags Bodie would wear? That was the idea of the actor:

Lester Freeman (Clarke Peters) says what up to Poot on Twitter. It’s all love outside of the show:

The actress who played Kima had a hand in the creation of Lester:

A fan posted a photo of the real Bunk, Detective Oscar Requer:

Brother Mouzone (Michael Potts) wishes he could have been with Bunk in a scene:

Sapper reveals what creator David Simon wanted Season 2 to be, in a nutshell:

Namond (Julito McCullum) thinks Nick Sobotka (Pablo Schreiber) is not given the credit he deserves:

Season 3

Poot appreciates how Stringer Bell (Idris Elba) looked out for him on the show, and in real life:

Sapper reveals that the demolition of the towers in the opener of season 3 was CGI:

Bodie often comes off as being unintentionally funny, and this is on purpose:

Officer Dozerman (Rick Otto) enjoys how the cast has been going down memory lane again:

Bunk points out that the deacon working with Cutty (Chad Coleman), like many of the cast members, are people from Baltimore:

Bubbles and Herc would help each other rehearse before scenes, until:

Why did Brother Mouzone always have a helper who was not as sharp as him? Simple:

The classic line from senator Davis was used elsewhere first. You may have also heard it in Red Hook Summer:

Did anyone notice how many hairstyles prosecutor Rhonda (Deirdre Lovejoy) had? Kima did:

Real drug dealers started to take tips from the show for their hustle, says Bunk:

Some of the scenes and dialogue would pay homage to old western films. Here’s one example from Sapper:

Marlo (Jamie Hector) pays respects to the late actor behind Proposition Joe (Robert Chew):

CLICK HERE FOR SEASON 4 TWEET RECAP

You can also find the author on Twitter at @SeveChambers.

The Wire Cast Tweets Inside Stories, Memories Of Show During HBO Marathon  was originally published on ionetheurbandaily.staging.go.ione.nyc

Season 4

The actor who played Namond (Julito McCullum) only auditioned for that role before joining the cast:

Bubs (Andre Royo) wanted some action in the 4th season, and was disappointed by his only moment:

During this season Bubs was picked on by a bully (Panama), and this is what he had to say:

Michael Lee (Mack Wilds) tweeted that there was not much improvising on the show:

Namond’s mother, Delonda (Sandi McCree), was based off of a person the actress met in real life:

There is one line that the actor behind Bodie (JD Williams) was not crazy about for his character:

The person Omar (Michael K. Williams) was modeled from appeared in a scene as Sapper (Brandon Tate) notes:

Believe it or not, all of the monologues in the show were done in one take according to Sergeant Landsman (Delaney Williams):

Are the female characters in the show marginalized? According to Bunk, the cast would disagree with that notion:

When fans meet Marlo (Jamie Hector) in real life, they usually do not like him:

The cast is like a family though, and when Dukie (Jermaine Crawford) joined the show, everyone including Kima embraced them:

Check back throughout the marathon for additional tweets from the cast.

You can also find the author on Twitter at @SeveChambers.

The Wire Cast Tweets Inside Stories, Memories Of Show During HBO Marathon  was originally published on ionetheurbandaily.staging.go.ione.nyc

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