Source: HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n“The Wire” is a critically acclaimed HBO series which premiered in 2008 and ran for five seasons. Then-Senator Barack Obama called “The Wire” his favorite TV series, and he specifically praised the character of Omar Little, played by Michael K. Williams. After this show ended, Williams was open about his struggles with drug addiction. He also portrayed Montrose Freeman on HBO’s Lovecraft Country, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Williams talked to THR in 2011 saying, “I just want people to remember me as one cool-ass dude, you know? Someone who cared. And I would never want anybody to say, \u2018Oh, he forgot where he came from.\u2019 That would hurt me the most.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Michael K. Williams, the actor who played Omar Little in the acclaimed HBO series “The Wire,” died in 2021 from a drug overdose. Four men were charged in his death, and one of them, Carlos Macci, has pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl-laced heroin to the actor. Macci also pled guilty to possessing and distributing narcotics […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,13,11],"tags":[3171,774,3172,3170,3169,3175,168,3168,1294,1607,1444,1519,3173,3174,3167,1536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17698,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions\/17698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}