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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Remembering Michael K. Williams

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Marc revisits his conversation from earlier this year with actor Michael K. Williams. Michael died at age 54 on September 6, 2021.

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0:00.0

Hey, people, I talked to Michael K Williams on Wednesday, February 10th of this year,

0:15.7

little over seven months ago.

0:20.6

He was an amazing conversation.

0:22.8

I was excited.

0:24.8

I was a tremendous fan of his work and we had an amazing conversation.

0:32.4

It was on fire.

0:34.1

So alive just lit up that guy was with life.

0:42.0

He was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment on Monday, September 6th.

0:47.4

He was 54 years old.

0:50.7

Because of death has not been released and there's no point in speculating on how he died,

0:56.9

the information will come out eventually.

1:00.5

The conversation I had with Michael, we had because he was promoting the film Body Brokers,

1:04.9

which is about drug treatment fraud.

1:07.4

And in general, it's about drug addiction.

1:10.0

I had talked to Melissa Leo, who was also in the film.

1:12.2

I later talked to the director of the film.

1:14.9

And we don't always do that.

1:16.8

Look many people on a particular film, but I wanted to talk to Michael because he was great,

1:24.2

a great actor, a truly gifted, unique person.

1:31.6

And we got along incredibly well.

1:35.4

It was intense because we talked openly about our common history with addiction.

1:43.9

And Michael talked about the times he relapsed.

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