Is omar from the wire gay

How The Wire’s Omar

Privacy Policy Terms of Use. Search form Search. His memoir is published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House. At one point, Williams and Darnall decided to kiss on-screen, although it wasn't in the script. He is a notorious Baltimore stick-up man who frequently robs street-level drug dealers.

Michael K. Williams, who played gay drug dealer Omar Little on the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, fought for a full portrayal of Omar's sexuality and relationships in the series, a new memoir reveals. I don't mean it was rare; I mean it did not happen.

Other than a few insults tossed his way, he could have been gay/straight/bi, whatever.

Michael K Williams Fought

Jon Sternfeld coauthored the book. The memoir also reveals that Williams had some trepidation about playing a gay character. Join the fight. All Rights reserved. It was just a character choice. Omar Devone Little is a fictional character on the HBO crime drama series The Wire, portrayed by Michael K.

Williams. Omar being gay is completely unimportant to his character. Maybe it made it easier to make a Brandon character, or it caused less issues than Omar running with his gf and she gets caught and strung out on the hood of a car.

I knew from the jump he was going to be a big deal. Williams played Omar from to I felt like if we were going to do this, we should go all in. Twenty years ago, men -- especially men of color -- were not kissing on television.

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Michael K. Williams, who played gay drug dealer Omar Little on the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, fought for a full portrayal of Omar's sexuality and relationships in the series, a new memoir reveals. Williams died last September at age 54, and his memoir, Scenes From My Life, was published last week.

People Non-topics Yahoo Feed Books. I made Omar my own. He wasn't written as a type, and I wouldn't play him as one. Advocate Newsletter.