We Own This City Cast Guide: Every Character Vs The Real Life Person
HBO's We Own This City revives David Simon's real-life Baltimore crime universe, with a cast of incredibly talented actors, including some The Wire veterans. Jon Bernthal leads the We Own This City cast as the most notable name, flipping his role in Marvel's The Punisher show, but alongside him, HBO has brought together a brilliant cast of veterans and comparative newcomers, in the same vein as The Wire's cast. While We Own This City is not a sequel to The Wire, that helps it feel like it's very much the same philosophical plane.
Like The Wire before it, which boasted zeitgeist performances like Michael K Williams' Omar Little, We Own This City is a show as much about people as it is about institutions. The We Own This City timeline may be less linear than HBO's seminal predecessor, but it soars as a character portrait with sometimes grotesque but entirely compelling figures like Bernthal's Wayne Jenkins. We Own This City opens with his philosophy, explaining the show's title as an expression of his team's power and positioning himself as a superhero in his own mind.
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The Wire's characters were never black or white, given the show's shifting moral spectrum, and while some of We Own This City's characters are a little more cut and dried. Here's We Own This City's cast of real-life characters, comparisons to the people they're all based on, and where you know the actors from.
The head of the Gun Trace Task Force and self-proclaimed «Superman», Jenkins is a BPD veteran whose tenure as the key player in the group was linked to a huge increase in criminal activity. Jenkins was investigated for multiple criminal counts including racketeering, robbery, and
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