what the wire actors did next...

Amy Ryan/Beatrice Russell is in Green Zone on C4 atm. She looks much better than she did in Baltimore.

Idris Elba is supposed to be playing Roland in The Dark Tower movies. He's one of my favourite actors but anyone who has read The Dark Tower series will know that this is a very strange casting. Best of luck to him though, he could just pull it off..

Nathan Barksdale, the former Baltimore gangster who inspired characters in "The Wire," has died in federal medical prison in North Carolina at age 54.

Barksdale, who went by the nickname "Bodie," was a notorious Baltimore criminal in the 1980s, running a violent heroin-dealing operation in the Murphy Homes. He was shot more than 20 times and had to have his right leg amputated below the knee.

Key characters on "The Wire" included nods to Barksdale, such as a drug kingpin Avon Barksdale and another dealer named "Bodie" Broadus. Nathan Barksdale eagerly embraced the connections, releasing a DVD that chronicled his life and in which he was interviewed by the actor Wood Harris, who played the Avon Barksdale character.

"In real life he was one of the most notorious and resilient gangster drug kingpins Baltimore has ever seen," a narrator on the video says. "He was a magnet for violence."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-avon-barksdale-dies-20160216-story.html

A mini "The Wire" reunion is coming to TV this weekend.

Tray Chaney and J.D. Williams, who played Poot and Bodie on the HBO drama, respectively, are together again in the drama "Saints & Sinners," which airs at 9 p.m. Sunday on Bounce TV.


Chaney is Kendrick Murphy, while Williams plays Jabari Morris in the show that follows the drama surrounding a Southern Baptist church in small-town Georgia. The two characters are involved in a heist and will be seen on "Saints & Sinners" for the next three Sundays.

Both actors appeared in all five seasons of "The Wire," playing drug dealers in the Baltimore-based drama.

Bounce can be seen on channel 203 on Comcast in Baltimore city. It's also on Verizon Fios 459 and WMAR's digital channel 2.3.

GerB40 wrote: »

Bodie has barely changed. He'll never be able to escape that role...

Don't you mean Kenny Wangler has barely changed?

GerB40 wrote: »

I would've said that had I known his name. Every day's a school day..

His real name is JD Williams, he played the part of Kenny Wangler in Oz.

And of course Slim Charles also makes an appearance in episode 2.

Nick Sabotka/Pablo Schreiber plays one of the lead roles in Den of Thieves alongside Fifty Cent and Gerard Butler, a decent but predictable modern cops and robbers thriller.