Episode 1158 - Wendell Pierce

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Wendell Pierce isn't doing a lot of acting during the pandemic, but he's keeping busy. He's spending more time with his 95-year-old father in New Orleans, he's hosting radio shows on a local station he bought, and he's helping to figure out the future of live theater. Wendell and Marc talk about his time on The Wire and the unique way he experienced that show. They also discuss what he learned playing Willy Loman last year and how Led Zeppelin and jazz helped him become a better actor.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.4	How are you, what the fuckers?
0:13.1	What the fuck buddies?
0:15.3	What the fuck a holics?
0:17.4	What is happening?
0:18.5	I'm Mark Marin.
0:19.5	This is my podcast.
0:20.5	Welcome to it.
0:22.0	How's everybody doing?
0:23.0	Are you okay?
0:25.5	Today on the show, I talked to Wendell Pierce.
0:29.3	He's one of the great character actors.
0:31.8	You know him as Bunk in the Wire.
0:34.1	He was in Tremay, he was in Salma, he was in Ray, he's a great actor.
0:38.3	Recently he played Willie Lomon in Death of Assailment over in London and he got a big
0:42.7	nomination for that.
0:44.5	And we're going to talk about that.
0:48.9	But it was an honor.
0:49.9	I ran into him somewhere and he knew me and I said I'd love to talk to you and it was
0:54.4	really a great conversation.
0:56.8	So that's coming up.
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