...If there are any left.
Actor Michael K. Williams Opens Up About Omar's Demise
Omar was killed buying a pack of cigarettes in a local corner-store by a kid wholooked like he hadn't even reached puberty yet.
"I don't know if it was so much of a surprise," Williams said of the conclusionof his now-iconic role. "That's how David and Ed and all of them write: not whateverybody is expecting. Everybody was expecting to see him bang out with Snoop and Chris or Marlo. That's exactly what he didn't give you, but he also told
another story where the minds of the youth are. The young nation, that's how they do. Life is real cheap right now.
"It took me for a loop. I was also saddened. Not that he was dying, 'cause when I got the job, they told me season one Omar was only going to be around for seven episodes. 'After that, expect a bullet.' It still hurt.
Read complete story here...
Note: It is mentioned in the article that Omar took his grandmother to church on Sundays and "wet up the block the same day". That line isn't true. Omar did take his grandmother to church on Sundays, but he also took Sunday of from robbing drug dealers. Get your sh*t right, Shaheem Reid! (FYI, this is the second writer whom I've had to correct about Omar's attributes, but the writer in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution fixed the error right away.)
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, the Author
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who plays the cold-blooded hit woman on HBO's The Wire, is currently on a book tour to promote her memoir entitled, "Grace After Midnight: A Memoir". Pearson, who was discovered for the role of Snoop by Michael K. Williams who plays the character Omar, is in Atlanta today to speak to the public about her book.
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
...But for the grace of God and landing the acting gig, Pearson’s life could resemble Snoop’s on “The Wire.” Her memoir traces her birth as a crack baby to foster care placement and prison after she murdered a woman. Post-“Wire,” Pearson will focus her attention on more acting projects and on a youth program she started in Brooklyn and Baltimore with Jamie Hector, who plays Marlo on theshow.
Read a short interview with Felicia here...
Like I've mentioned before, I don't watch HBO's The Wire final season anymore because of the many, many plot twists that my heart cannot bear to handle anymore, but I'll continue to speak about the actors on the show since I know David Simon and Ed Burns can't kill them off!
