The Wire & Last Saturday's Guardian
Posted by Carl Parker on 26 May 2008 - 1:53pm.
There was an article in Saturday's Guardian Weekend where Felicia Pearson (Snoop) and Jamie Hector (Marlo)talked about the series and life outside it.
It's available at the Guardian website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/24/the.wire.season.five
with the bonus of an audio extract from the interview.
Season 5 starts in July on FX.
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Great piece, but it completely fails to even mention that the person who turned Snoop from a thug into an actress wasn't Michael K. Williams (Omar), who discovered her, or Jamie Hector (Marlo), who befriended her, but Robert F. Chew (Prop Joe), who runs a drama workshop for street kids in Baltimore. He coached the four main kid characters in season 4 as well.
The fat man, he be real, yo.
The Wire
Gees The Wire is a superb show. Just watched the forth series and can't wait for the fifth -shame it's going to the last one.
I read the article you mentioned, it makes for pretty intense reading when you think how young she still is.
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I hope I'm not the only one who suffered the embarrassment on Saturday of reading this article and only then realising that Snoop was a she and not a he. I'm deep into season four and I'd never questioned it.
After the revelations a while ago that Stringer's from Hackney and McNulty's an Old Etonian from Sheffield, I don't know what to expect next.
Carcetti is Irish. . .
Rawls was a Madison Avenue advertising executive before turning to acting only a few years ago (and nailing it at almost his first attempt; Rawls is his first substantial role, but that's a Gene Hackman/Robert Duvall-level performance he's turning in there). . . Slim Charles used to be the undisputed king of D.C. go-go music. . . oh, and the current real-life Deputy Ops of the Baltimore PD just happens to be called Barksdale. Ho ho.
No, not just you!
red faces here as well.
Me too
I watched the whole fourth series last Christmas without ever once thinking Snoop was female.
Don't read this if you haven't seen series 4
Not even when Bunk was talking to Lex's mother and she said Lex had been killed by Chris and a girl called "Loop or Snoop"?
I thought from scene 1 in S4, where Snoop buys the nail gun that there was confusion about sex. The look is androgynous and I think intended to confuse us. Once I realised Snoop was a killer the gender stereotypes kicked in and the thought of a girl as an assassin started to trouble me.
As I typed this, it occurred to me that this idea entered the mainstream many years ago in The Sting.