'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality. (Lance Reddick)

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Lance Reddick

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