Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 40 - Jamie Hector (The Wire / Bosch / Heroes / The Strain / Cape Fear / Wu-Tang Clan))

This time I’m letting Jamie Hector talk. Funny thing is, I actually interviewed Jamie for the AV Club, even if I didn’t entirely remember it at first. In my defense, I’ve done so freaking many Random Roles interviews over the years that the relatively few non-Random Roles interviews I’ve done with actors often slip past me, although I really should’ve remembered the fact that I interviewed Marlo from the freakin’ WIRE! Yes, that’s right: Jamie played Marlo on HBO’s THE WIRE, and he so quickly became a defining figure of the series that you may not even remember that he wasn’t even an original cast member. These days his character is so closely associated with the show that Marlo came in at #2 on Rolling Stone’s Greatest TV Villains of All Time in 2016. That’s a pretty bad guy right there. Currently, however, Jamie back on the side of the good, playing Ray Rawlins on the Apple TV+ adaptation of CAPE FEAR, which continues to unfold until its 10th and final episode airs on July 31. And it’s not as if he wasn’t keeping busy between these projects, y’know. After THE WIRE, he stepped straight into an arc on HEROES, and he also did a stint on FX’s THE STRAIN. More recently, he’s been busy playing Jerry Edgar on BOSCH as well as reprising his role on the various spinoffs of the series. And we also talked about how exciting it was for him to appear in WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA, how he enjoyed the rare opportunity to do comedy in an episode of ARE WE THERE YET? (where he played a character named Arlo, which, y’know, probably just a coincidence), and oh, yes, we talked a lot about THE WIRE, too. Well, that’s probably enough of an intro. It’s time to let Jamie Hector talk.