Michael K Williams dead at 54
 

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Omar…

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Uggghhh. He was great in everything he did. R.I.P.

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TMZ says suspected drug overdose.

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The NY Post is saying he died of a possible drug overdose. Damn man.

I followed a lot of his work over the years. Solid actor. Hap and Leonard on Sundance was fun even though no one watched it.

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Noooooooo. Loved him in anything I saw him in.

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Tomorrow I'll eat a bowl of that Honey Nut in tribute.

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I'm rewatching The Wire right now with a friend (her first time). Omar is one of the all-time great TV characters, and he continued putting in great performances. Shocking and incredibly depressing news. I'll miss seeing him in stuff.

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Oh man. Such a talented guy too. Loved him in The Wire and saw him recently in something else and he was great... this sucks.

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That’s terrible news.

He’ll be best known for The Wire but he was awesome in everything I saw him in.

Fucking drugs man…

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I finished Lovecraft Country last week. He was such an intense actor. I loved him in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and Hap & Leonard.

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Awful news. What a loss.

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This breaks my heart.

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Terrible news. Omar is just about the best tv character ever. He was really good in a lot of movies but I feel like he never quite got the signature film role he deserved like he did in television. He was such an amazing actor. Sad stuff.

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Fuck.

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Such a fantastic actor, making each role his own. One not mentioned yet was his recurring character on Community playing the Biology teacher.

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Noooo! :( RIP My Man...

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RIP

Sucks since was just in the prime of his career with probably more exciting quality stuff waiting and maybe a Oscar nom or win,

Body Brokers was the last thing I saw him in,

He was in a lot of the shows and movies I watched and he did a podcast with Maron I think earlier in the year.

A huge loss.

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Omar not comin' anymore :sad:

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Hap & Leonard is on Netflix. Everyone should check that out.

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Yeah, as a long time reader of Joe R. Lansdale's Hap and Leonard books, his Leonard Pine was so spot-on it's like he walked right out of the pages into the world.

Huge loss. He was an incredible actor.

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He was good on The Wire, great on Hap and Leonard and amazing on Boardwalk Empire.

Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead of an OD in his apartment and now Michael K. Williams. It's the PTA curse!

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And yet Adam Sandler keep chugging along, making movies.

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Fucking drugs, man. This is the kind of shit that makes you re-access your life. Not the drug part - I've never done drugs, but to lose your life so young...

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Looking at the category and competition, I think he has a pretty good chance of winning his only Emmy in two weeks.

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shocker

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what? explain.

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I believe he admitted in interviews that he used to have a drug problem. Those rarely go away forever. Sure, people get clean for a while, but it usually comes back.

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Such a bummer. I never watched The Wire, but loved him in Boardwalk Empire and Hap and Leonard

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Sad news. He was a great actor who had several great roles over the years. RIP

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Yeah, I was just reading a "where are they now" thing on The Wire cast last week and it said he had a drug problem prior in his life.

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I also believe he had admitted to using drugs while filming certain projects. It sounded like he either used them to fill in the intensity of the role or he just struggled with them while working on projects. I also got the sense that he knew full well that it could end him but accepted it as a consequence of playing these types of roles.

I get a strong Heath Ledger/Philip Seymour Hoffman vibe here.

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Sucks all 3 of those guys were great and as movie and TV fans we were robbed of the possible great work for the years to come.


Why can't this happen to somebody like Logan Paul and not the talented gifted artists and actors.

Maybe the pandemic brought back all of the old problems and bad habits when you had to isolate and quarantine

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It's crazy to see several people in this thread wishing that another person had died instead of this person. You guys realize that that's not how death works, right? Also, it's in very poor taste to wish anyone dead.

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Yeah save that for the Politics threads... but Rip. I really loved him in Hap and Leonard. First time I really took notice of him.

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Really enjoying Hap and Lenoard, such a damn shame...
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