He introduced her to the writers and producers, who created the role of Snoop for her in season 3. The character of Little himself was partly based on a dealer named Donnie Andrews, who voluntarily turned himself over to Burns after he accepted work as a contract killer to support his addiction. Bubbles Andre Royo was based on a real-life informant who identified criminals to the police by using his photographic memory.
Even the cast members who were simply trained actors had the street people fooled. In a interview with Mr Media , Simon said he thought the cast needed far more recognition for their skill. They are never regarded as having created any characterisations or achieved any sense of craft for what they are doing. And, in fact, these are incredibly professional actors who are reading from a script.
Fun fact: The character Omar Little, who values his self-control above everything, swears only once during the entire series.
While its unknowns do incredible work, The Wire also boasts some big names. The Wire, while having a moral core, takes a somewhat neutral stance on who the good and bad guys are, which gives loads of room to explore complex characters on all sides of the story. Director and later executive producer Joe Chappelle said in an interview with CreativeCow. To direct [The Wire], you have to have done your homework on the show as a whole.
By the time people caught up with it, it was spoken about as this under-rated, under-seen, under-the-radar gem about inner city life, like it was buried treasure. It just so happened that in the case of The Wire, it was actually true. It did play its part. Compared to those shows, series like Breaking Bad and Mad Men look like overhyped rehashes.
A second series has already been commissioned. We wanted to tell the stories about the poorest to the richest. I am not saying that the grisly killings are superficial, but you need more, you need an idea to hit you hard.
Perhaps The Wire really does deserve its accolades. His breakout performance in The Wire was so good that it made the reveal of his often grating public persona slightly too-cocky Londoner all the more surprising. Stringer is the architect behind the all-powerful Barksdale drug empire, who constantly wrestles with his urge to break free from the 'street game' and legitimise himself as a businessman.
This conflict is captured perfectly when his attempts to educate his crew about the the elasticity of demand - which he learns from his economics lectures - fall on deaf ears, much to his annoyance. Elba wasn't the only major name to emerge from The Wire.
The likes of Michael B. Jordan Wallace , Dominic West Jimmy McNulty and Aiden Gillen Tommy Carcetti all made their breakthrough performances in the series, and have gone on to do big things in their careers since. McNulty is the stand-out character of the bunch and probably the closest thing to a central character in the whole series, as the focus of the show weaves in and out of a vast array of personalities and settings across the city of Baltimore.
His obsession with delivering 'real police-work' in the face of a failing, stats-driven police department, while mostly on a diet of Irish Whiskey, positions him as one of the flawed heroes that the story builds around.
One of the few complaints that some people make about The Wire is the difference in quality between each season, particularly as the focus shifts to a new theme each time and new characters are introduced along the way. The majority of fans would rank Seasons 1 and 3 as the best of the bunch, both of which focus primarily on the pursuit of the Barksdale crew.
As a complete end-to-end story, Season 1 is probably the best of the lot, although the peak of the entire show comes towards the end of season 3. The other three seasons have often suffered by comparison - particularly Season 2 - which looks at the Baltimore dockers as a depiction of 'the death of labour' in the city, and is a brilliant story in its own right.
If you weren't a big fan of Season 4 initially, which centres around four teenage kids and the Baltimore school system, it definitely improves on second viewing. The only real dip in quality comes in Season 5, where McNulty's phony 'homeless serial killer' angle goes a bit too far beyond the boundaries of believability, but there is still more than enough in each season to make a re-watch worth your time.
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