“With whom do you wish you could have played a scene?” — question for cast members of The Wire

Back in 2014, during The Wire marathon on HBO, I started tweeting to cast members a simple question:

“With whom do you wish you could have played a scene?”

After all, there are so many fabulous actors on The Wire, and many never got to do a scene together, despite so many cast members — regardless of season — becoming friends or at least friendly off camera.

I grouped all of the responses in a Storify file, but unfortunately the site closed down and the post is gone. So I’ve re-configured them here, in order in which I received them, and I’ll keep this post updated if and when I get more.

Best,

Jack

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Sonja Sohn — Kima

Answer: Michael Potts as Brother Mouzone

Clarke Peters — Lester

Answer: Robert F. Chew as Proposition Joe

Tray Chaney — Poot

Answer: Sonja Sohn as Kima

Wendell Pierce — The Bunk

Answer: Wood Harris as Avon

Julito McCullum — Namond

Answer: Idris Elba as Stringer or Wood Harris as Avon

Michael Potts — Brother Mouzone

Answer: Wendell Pierce as The Bunk

Wendell responds

Delaney Williams — Jay Landsman

Answer: Felicia Pearson as Snoop

James Ransone — Ziggy

Answer: Idris Elba as Stringer (tweet deleted)

Chris Ashworth — Sergei

Answer: Michael K. Williams as Omar

Chris Bauer — Sobotka

Answer: Michael K. Williams as Omar

Jamie Hector — Marlo

Answer: Chad L. Coleman as Cutty (fun side note: Hector auditioned for Cutty)

Lance Reddick — Lt. Daniels

Answer: Prop Joe, Snoop, Marlo

Brandan Tate — Sapper

Answer: Method Man as Cheese, Clarke Peters as Lester

Sandi McCree — De’Londa Brice

Answer: Jamie Hector as Marlo

Pablo Schreiber — Nick Sobotka

Answer: ha

Mel Nicholls-King — Cheryl

Answer: everyone (part 1, part 2)

Robert Wisdom — Colvin

Answer: no one, as he is happy with what he got to do

Neal Huff — Steintorf

Answer: Prezbo and his students

Michael Kostroff — Levy

Answer: Cutty

David Simon — show creator (asked him about writing a scene between two characters)

Answer: Slim Charles and Jay Landsman

2 Replies to ““With whom do you wish you could have played a scene?” — question for cast members of The Wire”

Just stumbled across this and wanted to say thank you for doing it. This is one of my all time favorite tv series and reading through the responses was so interesting!