
Simon: I had never seen an audition tape like it. He later told Dom that his wife was like, "We are not moving to Baltimore." Call me back." In the time between when he called me and when I called him back, he stopped taking calls. I talked to him for maybe five minutes, and I said, "Hey, listen, can I call you back? I'm in a corn maze with my kid." And he said, "Yeah, yeah.

So, I'm trying to keep up with my kid, who's running around like a madman in this maze, and that's when John C. It was three weeks before Halloween, because I was in a corn maze with my kid, Ethan, who would have been like seven, six. Reilly could be a different McNulty, certainly not the same, but I thought he could carry all of the excesses and vices of McNulty in a different way.
#The wire cast driver
You just came in and you were bitching and complaining about this taxi driver and that was the thing that got you the gig, because you're so much like Bunk." The fact that I would bring it up in the middle of a major audition shows some gumption on my part. William "Bunk" Moreland): It was weeks later, maybe even a year later, while we were shooting, that David said, "You know, when you came in, it was not your reading that got you the part. As soon as he came in and read, it was like, "That's our Bunk." He had to focus on the scene, and he was apologizing for what he thought was a bad read, but it had that air of Baltimore-put-upon workaday Baltimore-homicide detective.
He was harried, like a bear who'd hit the hornet's nest.

It was one of those sort of trying-to-hail-a-cab-while-black moments in New York, and he came in and he was steaming. He had gotten in an argument with a cab driver. David Simon (Creator): came in and just nailed.
