Idris Elba was having a 40-degree day when first reading his character Stringer Bell’s death scene on “The Wire.” The acclaimed HBO series spanned five seasons between 2002 and 2008; Elba’s drug kingpin Stringer was killed in the Season 3 finale in 2004 by Omar (the late Michael K. Williams) and Brother Mouzone (Michael Potts). It belongs to the gangsters and to the career cops who want to get paid, and so Colvin and Stringer needed to have the same arc, thematically, to make the political point. Simon echoed how Elba was “not happy” when he was killed off right “when people were really starting to discover what a leading man he was,” as Simon said to the Associated Press.
Author: Samantha Bergeson
Published at: 2025-07-02 22:00:00
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