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Worst Wire cast fall-offs

HollafameHollafame 844 Posts
edited December 2011 in Strut Central
Most of us hold a special place in our hearts for this series, so, if you're like me, you have a bit of a personal investment in the future success of Wire alumni.

Obviously a couple have made it pretty big (Elba, Jordan), but after seeing this:



it got me thinking...who has fell off the hardest?

I understand ol Cutty is gettin his paper, but gawd that show is horrible.

Obvious candidate is Snoop, but thats just sad.

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  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    so bubbles is now working as an extra? somebody get that man a real agent..
  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts
    crabmongerfunk said:
    so bubbles is now working as an extra? somebody get that man a real agent..

    He's in that upcoming George Lucas movie, Red Tails (no, it's not a porno), as is Tristan Wilds (aka Michael) and Method Man. The movie is likely to be Lucas schlock, but at least it'll be somewhat high-profile schlock, and I'm guessing Bubs got himself some paper for it.
  • UnherdUnherd 1,880 Posts
    I don't know what else Bodie is doing, but I had to youtube this the other week after I caught it on TV.

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    that Bubbles thing is just weird.

    that man gets real work (I've seen him on Law and Order recently -- BTW almost all Wire characters have appeared at least once on that show).

    what he's doing as a non-speaking extra in the back of a fantasy football commercial is beyond me.
  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    this shit is easy, come on

  • HollafameHollafame 844 Posts
    I don't know...I wouldn't mind working with some of those ladies every day
  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    based on that picture i don't think dude shares the same sentiment
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    The answer is Lance Reddick. I dare you to go to http://www.lancereddick.com/ and listen to his music.
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    Somebody sure likes Happyhour Casual guy.
  • AKallDayAKallDay 830 Posts
    I don't know but there's money to be made as yet for these guys: cast members of "The Wire" could charge $8000 a pop to show up at white liberal's parties. michael k williams could scoop far more. oh yeah.
  • SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
    hogginthefogg said:
    The answer is Lance Reddick. I dare you to go to http://www.lancereddick.com/ and listen to his music.

    It gets pretty good if you press play on all of the songs at once.

    :shreddin_it:
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Eff the Wire. This is Oz to me.

    Oh shit! Alvarez is delivering your pizza! He'll tear your eyeballs out! Oh fuck! Keller is your lawyer. Don't go into chambers with him! He'll rape your ass off! And Schillinger, fuck if he should be anybody's shop teacher!

    Okay, then there's O'Reilly getting dragged by cars and shit. That's kinda in step actually.
  • dollar_bindollar_bin I heartily endorse this product and/or event 2,326 Posts


    Technically not a fall off, because this ad dates to sometime between season 3 and 4, and Levy appears in every season. Apparently Levy's beef fascination extends beyond brisket at the Levy family preserve on a Friday night.
  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts
    dollar_bin said:


    Technically not a fall off, because this ad dates to sometime between season 3 and 4, and Levy appears in every season. Apparently Levy's beef fascination extends beyond brisket at the Levy family preserve on a Friday night.

    Michael Kostroff talked about this commercial when he popped up in a blog comment thread:

    a national Wendy's commercial would pay approximately one gabillion times more than an episode of "The Wire." Now that's a rough figure, obviously. It might be 1.2 gabillion. You get the point.

    Pay for commercials is a complicated thing, based on how many times the thing runs, how many markets it runs in, what time of day, what channels, etc. It's far more complicated than it is interesting. But potentially, a primetime national network commercial that runs can buy you a house. Pay on HBO shows, on the other hand, is notoriously low, and no one cares. I'd work for them any day of the week.

    He also offered up this funny little nugget:

    As for the term "eyefuck," a little behind-the-scenes tidbit: Use of the term wasn't limited to dialogue. It was also all over our "stage directions" (descriptions of the action provided in the script), as in "Marlo eyefucks Herc as he passes."
  • Hotsauce84Hotsauce84 8,450 Posts
    hogginthefogg said:
    The answer is Lance Reddick. I dare you to go to http://www.lancereddick.com/ and listen to his music.

    "Contemplations & Rememberances"

  • Danno3000Danno3000 2,851 Posts
    Snagglepus said:
    hogginthefogg said:
    The answer is Lance Reddick. I dare you to go to http://www.lancereddick.com/ and listen to his music.

    It gets pretty good if you press play on all of the songs at once.

    :shreddin_it:

    He sounds like John Lucien's younger brother Chad who studied music at Harvard on a fencing scholarship.
  • edulusedulus 421 Posts
    i hate to say anyone "fell off" from the wire, because goddamn it's just a show, that as cited above, probably didn't pay all that well. so i guess if "falling off" means going from guy who makes beats in his basement for a message board to guy who gets paid to make beats for jay-z (ok maybe more like asher roth or something), then yeah some people have fallen off.

    WHAT UP RANDY?
  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,170 Posts
    Not sure if this a fall-off or not

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1556507886/isiah-whitlock-jr-talking-bobblehead

    The video is hilarious tho
  • ppadilhappadilha 2,244 Posts
    ketan said:
    Not sure if this a fall-off or not

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1556507886/isiah-whitlock-jr-talking-bobblehead

    The video is hilarious tho

    I would think having a bobblehead made after your image is the polar opposite of falling off.
  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,170 Posts
    chalk it up to my recent local experience

  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,903 Posts
    HOLLAFAME said:
    Most of us hold a special place in our hearts for this series, so, if you're like me, you have a bit of a personal investment in the future success of Wire alumni.

    Obviously a couple have made it pretty big (Elba, Jordan), but after seeing this:



    it got me thinking...who has fell off the hardest?

    I understand ol Cutty is gettin his paper, but gawd that show is horrible.


    VENTICATED!


  • HollafameHollafame 844 Posts
    Haha...I don't watch Walking Dead but I saw Carver was on that shit too
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