Bresha Webb and Jalen Rose discuss ‘The Wire’ and acting
nypost.comBresha Webb is a proud daughter of Baltimore, who grew up with big acting dreams. But she has mixed feelings when it comes to the city’s greatest contribution to television: “The Wire.”“A lot of the roles were cast out of my high school, the Baltimore School for the Arts.
So I was just upset that I didn’t get a chance to be on it,” she told me on this week’s “Renaissance Man.”She said that her classmates and teachers were cast, but she was petite and, well, too “cute” to be considered for those gritty gangster and drug dealer roles.“I looked like I was 14 forever,” she said. “It works to my advantage now, but oh God, I really wanted to be on ‘The Wire’ … I mean, it was like we could watch our teachers … We could actually see them act out characters. “And some of them were crooked, like, ‘Oh, you died last week.'”Ultimately it was “a little too close to home.
So I couldn’t watch it because they were filming like right outside my church, you know, just like places that I was frequently around at all times.
It was really real to me,” she said. “So I wasn’t able to really appreciate it until when I was older.”But it all worked out great for the tiny, but mighty, Bresha.
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