'The Wire' 's Michael K. Williams Described How Most Intense Roles Led to Relapse in Posthumous Memoir
Michael K. Williams.Photo: Amy Sussman/FilmMagic Michael K. Williamspoured himself into his biggest roles, fromThe WiretoLovecraft Country. But the emotional toll those performances took would often send the acclaimed actor into relapse, he reveals in his upcoming posthumous memoir,Scenes From My Life. Finally, a lone fax came for an audition for a character named Omar Little. It was that hunger that initially drove him to stay clean playing the iconic Baltimore thief....