The Wire Cast Tweets Inside Stories, Memories Of Show During Marathon

If you are binge-watching The Wire on HBO Signature this weekend, now digitally remastered, being on Twitter makes the experience even better. Some of the cast has been live-tweeting the marathon, reflecting on the classic TV show and revealing things from behind the scenes. If you are unable to keep up with both screens, we got you covered. Featured here are tweets from everybody, from the people who played Bubbles, to Bodie, to Bunk. The tweets go by season so you can enjoy them as you watch the show.

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Season 1

Bunk (Wendell Pierce) revealed that whenever a cast member was killed off, everybody would come to their final day on the set to bid them farewell:

Bubbles (Andre Royo) was really nervous when he did his first scene:

Herc (Domenick Lombardozzi) remembers a rat crawling over his foot during one take:

Lieutenant Daniels (Lance Reddick) chimes in with a salute to his fellow cast members:

The scene with the McNuggets talk had to be redone so many times that it made Poot sick, for real:

When it hits you that Day-Day (Donnell Rawlings) is also Ashy Larry:

Bunk recalled that he and Sergeant Landsman (Delaney Williams) had the ladies swooning over them on the set. To which the sergeant responds:

Poot and D’Angelo (Larry Gilliam Jr.) shouted out each other as hustlers and actors:

Every scam that Bubbles ran on the show were based on real stories:

Kima (Sonja Sohn) thought the moments leading to the death of Wallace (Michael B. Jordan) were done amazingly well:

One of Bunk’s favorite moments? Interrogating D’Angelo:

Lester Freeman (Clarke Peters) says what up to Poot. It’s all love outside of the show:

Bodie (JD Williams) has a pick for most underrated role:

How many E’s does it take to spell the classic line from senator Clay Davis (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.)? He has a number:

Season 2

Sapper gave props to the actor behind Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer), and is given insight into the actor’s method:

Bubbles was such a convincing bum that the show’s security nearly chased him off once:

Ziggy Sobotka (James Ransone) provides a very blunt thought on why people dislike his character:

https://twitter.com/jamesransone/status/549035169705758720

How much porn did Sergeant Landsman keep in his desk? Think about it in terms of pounds:

What was the first scene Sergei (Chris Ashworth) shot for the show? The diner where the Greeks would meet at:

https://twitter.com/TheRealAshworth/status/548558333532463105

So what about the dorags Bodie would wear? That was the idea of the actor:

The actress who played Kima had a hand in the creation of Lester:

Who had the best curses on the show? In Bodie’s opinion, it was Bunk:

Brother Mouzone (Michael Potts) wishes he could have been in a scene with Bunk:

A fan posted a photo of the real Bunk, Detective Oscar Requer, for Bunk:

Bubbles tweeted about the show being snubbed when it came to awards:

When officer Ray Cole (co-creator Robert Colesberry) passed in 2004, there were talks of ending the show with the second season as prosecutor Rhonda (Deirdre Lovejoy) notes:

Sapper reveals what creator David Simon wanted Season 2 to be, in a nutshell:

Namond (Julito McCullum) thinks Nick Sobotka (Pablo Schreiber) is not given enough recognition:

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You can also find the author on Twitter at @SeveChambers.

Season 3

Poot (Tray Chaney) appreciates how Stringer Bell (Idris Elba) looked out for him on the show, and in real life:

Sapper (Brandon Tate) reveals that the demolition of the towers in the season 3 opener was CGI:

Bodie (JD Williams) often comes off as an unintentionally funny character, and this is on purpose:

Officer Dozerman (Rick Otto) enjoys how the cast has been going down memory lane again:

Bunk (Wendell Pierce) points out that the deacon working with Cutty (Chad Coleman), like many of the cast members, are people from Baltimore:

Bubbles (Andre Royo) and Herc (Domenick Lombardozzi) would help each other rehearse scenes, until:

Why did Brother Mouzone (Michael Potts) have a dimwit of a helper? Simple:

One of the film crew members posted a photo with Cheese (Method Man):

The classic line from senator Davis (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) came from a film first. You may have also heard it in Red Hook Summer:

Did anyone notice how many hairstyles Rhonda (Deirdre Lovejoy) had? Kima (Sonja Sohn) did:

How did McNulty get his nickname ‘McNutty?’ It was a mistake on the part of Bubbles:

Real drug dealers started to take tips from the show for their hustle, says Bunk:

Some of the scenes and dialogue would pay homage to old western films. Here is one example from Sapper:

When fans meet Marlo (Jamie Hector) in real life, they usually do not like him:

Season 4

The actor who played Namond (Julito McCullum) only auditioned for that role, and was a perfect fit:

Why was McNulty (Dominic West) largely absent in season 4? So the actor could spend more time with his family, Sapper revealed:

Bubbles wanted some action in the fourth season, and was disappointed by his only moment:

During this season Bubbles had a bully (Panama), and this is what his tormentor had to say about roughing him up:

Michael Lee (Mack Wilds) said very few lines in the show were improvised:

Namond’s mother, De’Londa (Sandi McCree), was modeled after a person the actress met in real life:

There is one line Bodie was not crazy about saying on the show:

The person Omar (Michael K. Williams) was based off of appeared in a few scenes as Sapper points out:

Believe it or not, all of the monologues in the show were done in one take according to Sergeant Landsman (Delaney Williams):

What about onscreen time for actresses? Many of them did more than their male counterparts as Bunk notes:

Marlo salutes the new generation of cast members, and Randy (Maestro Harrell) responds:

https://twitter.com/maestroharrell/status/549985619925938176

You can think of the cast like a family, and when new actors such as Dukie (Jermaine Crawford) joined the show, Kima and everyone else embraced them:

https://twitter.com/JermzCrawford/status/549641847753424896

The late actor behind Proposition Joe (Robert Chew) gave acting lessons to rookies like Namond:

This season, and the show, shined a light on issues affecting the youth as Marlo explains:

Season 5

Butch (S. Robert Morgan) is actually blind, as Bunk learned:

Who was the inspiration for senator Davis? The DJ that interviewed him in one episode, as Sapper notes:

The lawyer for senator Davis in this season? He is an attorney in real life:

Slim’s (Anwan Glover) reaction to how the real Omar escaped a shootout by jumping off the 6th floor of a building:

Major Colvin (Robert Wisdom) gained a lot from his relationship with Namond during this season:

Michael also grew under Chris (Gbenga Akinnagbe) while they were on the show:

A family photo of De’Londa, Namond, and Wee-Bay (Hassan Johnson), from behind the scenes:

If it was not clear on the show, it was Slim that killed Cheese (Method Man) to avenge Proposition Joe:

Chris was also an extra in the first episode of the show:

You may have noticed creator David Simon in the newsroom of the Baltimore Sun. He worked there as a reporter before making TV history:

Kima is proud of how the show represented the LGBT community:

Marlo thinks the casting directors and show producers are the real MVPs:

David Simon knew that despite low ratings the show would eventually find an audience, Bubbles recalled:

Finally, what makes the Wire so timeless? Herc has part of the answer:

You can also find the author on Twitter at @SeveChambers.