election in 2024. according to reporting s of republican party operatives this was a change where political, it includes a multi pawn strategy. first they have poll watchers to challenge voters on election day, then tracking objections on a special website so that maga lawmakers can intervene to try to block a vote counts and democratic or people of those of color. they are doing all this while crying about voter fraud on the other side. the rnc says that it is going to rectify and balance in favor of democratic election voters in a large urban areas. we hear you. we know it irvine. means do not be fooled. if you ve been paying attention we know this is coming. everyone who glanced preserve democracy should pay extra close attention. this plan to subvert the election should not come as an election surprise. they lost in 2020. they know the policies are trash. they know that they cannot win election on merits. it sure looks like this point it is going to cheat. they are going
he he played the health commissioner until his fictional self, usually you start talking about, that you re playing one of the most dangerous people in america. u.s. them to play a character very much like themselves, and not to look at the camera, people can be pretty good. it doesn t mean you re gonna get a saggy card and a full story arc with the love life. a little bit goes a long way. but you can do. it it was a nod to the real in baltimore. i am glad that a lot of faces of people, some of whom are not weight with this, anymore are indebted in the piece. that speaks to the baltimore that i knew. it s just something. it s just something a little insight. i remember, i can t remember the season, but i remember governor or lake played i think a security guard on the show. i think for those of us in the beltway area, we recognized a lot of those characters.
bunker, oscar mcqueen or, on the baltimore police department. black officers who wanted to uplift their black community. bravo to you. this was amazing worked of course for the rioters. david, you achieves people in the series who rely people from the area of baltimore. when let s of that decision? and through the creative process, why was that important to make it as authentic as possible, using people who are not classically trained actors? the world looks a little bit more real when you use the rail. here there s a little delicate inside joke if you re a baltimore ian, as i am. to have say the mayor, the former mayor who had been one of the first in america to argue for the decriminalization of the drug war.
happen. i don t expect it to happen again. that was a day. i think, michael certainly knew that, he knew the opportunities inherent in the character, and he seized all of them. we just wanted to have gay people in the world. we were making a show but a city, certainly about the dynamics within a city, the whole city, and it was important to us to have everybody there. so, in those places where you could be overtly gay, in our story and not have it impeach you, where you didn t wear, you could be open about your sexuality, we did that. i knew many lesbian officers in the baltimore department who were open about their sexuality. so we could utilize sonia s sexuality there, which was meaningful.
he wasn t in the hierarchy drug trade, where that kind of stuff we are a lot of homophobia would probably be directed at the character. he s indifferent to the homophobia. it was an opportunity. we took. it it was done beautifully. and it was an opportunity and glad you took. i want to play scene for you wendell pierce. i literally cannot narrowed down a favorite at the. so i will tell you david and wendell, i cannot watch season for again. i ve seen all the season multiple times. but i cannot watch season for, get it broke my heart. and so real and. rob follicles ease dropping and what was happening in baltimore with the public education system. wendell, take a look at the scene, because this was another classic character. if i make it to the other end, i win. if you catch the other duets king and trap it, then you win. but if i make it to the end,