Late actor Michael K. Williams' new memoir reveals that he phed for more timate gay scen for his character Omar on 'The Wire': 'You know gay people f---, right?'
Contents:
- MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS PHED FOR MORE GAY INTIMACY ON ‘THE WIRE’: ‘YOU KNOW GAY PEOPLE F*CK, RIGHT?’
- MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS PHED FOR MORE TIMATE GAY SCEN FOR OMAR ON THE WIRE: 'WE SHOULD GO ALL '
- OMAR LTLE IS THE GAY STICK-UP MAN WHO ROBS DG ALERS FOR A LIVG THE WIRE
- HOW THE WIRE’S OMAR LTLE CHALLENGED GAY STEREOTYP MEDIA
- OMAR LTLE ON ‘THE WIRE’ WAS ONE OF TV’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
- HOW THE WIRE'S OMAR STAR FOUGHT FOR GAY REPRENTATN IN THE HBO SHOW
- MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS WIFE, NET WORTH, DGS, GAY, SON, GIRLIEND, WIKI, AGE, FAY, GAY SCENE, OBUARY, INSTAGRAM
- MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS ON ‘THE WIRE’: I WANTED MORE GAY SCEN FOR OMAR
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS PHED FOR MORE GAY INTIMACY ON ‘THE WIRE’: ‘YOU KNOW GAY PEOPLE F*CK, RIGHT?’
In his new memoir, the Emmy nomee and "Wire" star Michael K. Williams addrsed the portrayal of his gay character Omar. * omar little gay scene *
The “Lovecraft Country” and “Boardwalk Empire” actor portrayed gay dg aler Omar “The Wire” om 2002 to 2008. “As for Omar’s homosexualy, was groundbreakg 20 years ago, and I adm that at first I was sred to play a gay character, ” Williams penned an excerpt om his memoir “Scen From My Life” -thored wh Jon Sternfeld, via Vulture.
“I thk my ial fear of Omar’s sexualy me om my upbrgg, the muny that raised me, and the stubborn stereotyp of gay characters.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS PHED FOR MORE TIMATE GAY SCEN FOR OMAR ON THE WIRE: 'WE SHOULD GO ALL '
* omar little gay scene *
Sce Omar was the “oppose of the stereotypil hood typ, ” Williams phed “The Wire” productn to showse all facets of Omar’s life onscreen, cludg his gay relatnships. I thk the directors were sred, and I said to one of them, ‘You know gay people fuck, right? Williams phed for more timate gay scen for Omar on The Wire: 'We should go all ' "You know gay people f---, right?
OMAR LTLE IS THE GAY STICK-UP MAN WHO ROBS DG ALERS FOR A LIVG THE WIRE
“Omar was the clost thg TV had to a gay superhero” * omar little gay scene *
Williams ma wav wh his portrayal of openly gay stickup man Omar Ltle on HBO's grty, Emmy-wng crime drama The Wire. I thk the directors were sred, and I said to one of them, 'You know gay people f---, right?
In the memoir, the actor, who did not intify as gay, exprsed that he was origally ncerned about portrayg the character.
HOW THE WIRE’S OMAR LTLE CHALLENGED GAY STEREOTYP MEDIA
Omar Devon Ltle was a stickup man Wt Baltimore who robbed both the Barksdale and Stanfield anizatns. Omar was a lorful character, notable for his 12-gge shotgun, trench at, openly gay liftyle, facial sr, refal to swear, and forebodg whistle of "The Farmer the Dell... * omar little gay scene *
"I thk my ial fear of Omar's sexualy me om my upbrgg, the muny that raised me, and the stubborn stereotyp of gay characters, " he explaed. David Simon explas: "I thought Omar, as an unaffiliated character, uld be boldly and openly homosexual a way that a gay man wh the anised dg tra or wh the police partment uld not be.
OMAR LTLE ON ‘THE WIRE’ WAS ONE OF TV’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
"Yeah, he's gay, but that's not the thg you're gonna remember him for if you meet him down an alley. It's that shotgun that will have you worried, not his gayns.
HOW THE WIRE'S OMAR STAR FOUGHT FOR GAY REPRENTATN IN THE HBO SHOW
"In the hood, pecially among the black muny, homosexualy is taboo, " he says. Oh, and he’s openly TVBefore Omar The Wire, cema and TV had a very rigid ia of what a gay man was.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS WIFE, NET WORTH, DGS, GAY, SON, GIRLIEND, WIKI, AGE, FAY, GAY SCENE, OBUARY, INSTAGRAM
Cultural juggernt shows of the 90s and early noughti were very specific how they viewed gay men, wh characters high-voiced, loose-limbed and the victim of homophobic jok. It was a sublimally effective way of limg what gayns uld be seen as.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS ON ‘THE WIRE’: I WANTED MORE GAY SCEN FOR OMAR
That’s not to say the shows and characters were homophobic – they weren’t; they were jt bld to seeg gayns beyond a quirk or a predomant inty tra. The characters were gay first, everythg else after.
Wh The Wire and Omar, ’s the other way around – he’s a man who happens to be gay. That don’t mean that homosexualy wasn’t important to the character; a bounty on Omar’s head is doubled after crime boss Avon Barksdale learns he’s gay, and the early murr of a boyiend is tegral to how Omar’s storyle velops the first season. Pl Schiraldi For the first time the mastream (havg grown populary sce s release, The Wire quickly beme inic TV) gay men, and particular gay black men, had someone that was actually like them.
He was humoro, hung out wh his boyiend and smoked – the gay dream; everybody’s dream, even. It’s a small touch, but an absolutely val one, pecially for young men nfed about their sexualy who would often be unsure as to how they uld be gay when they uldn’t relate to the more mp stereotyp on was larger than life, but offered a new type of character for young gay men to relate to. Gay men aren’t supposed to be vlent, let alone the most feared man all of Baltimore.