Chad L. Coleman (Cutty) Ranks His Top 5 Characters From 'The Wire'

Hi, this is Chad L. Coleman

I played Dennis Cutty Wise on the HBO series The Wire. And this is Ranker's top five Wire characters

Rounding out of top five, I would say, Cuddy, for sure. Not because I played the role

He's emblematic of most guys in the hood. Most guys in the Hub, believe it or not, don't want to do dirt anymore

They want to change their lives. And the fact that he was able to change his life from real time, I think, does a service to television

does a service to our community, and it's just walking real-time hope

Marlo, ice cold, man. Just ruthless. Do it or don't. Just casually put on your jacket

Kill him, you were killing, kill him, killer. Marlowe was representing the new generation. The birth of whatever you thought I wouldn't do, I will do

Omar, you hadn't seen this character before, and when you can get street

in a truly homophobic environment when you can you know bring the noise to the degree where you get the homies to have nothing but mad respect and fear That a hell of a feat A classic hood print

Kind of the last of a dying breeze. There was loyalty there

There was family there. There was do's and don'ts and ways to go about it

And I felt like, you know, he'd learned that from the old school and he represented that really well

There was something honorable about him, even in the dirt. He identified with my character and my integrity

and he co-signed for me to change. In that environment, in the world that we lived in, by all rights

he could have said, take him out, and he didn't. So I think that said a lot about who he was, too

Number one, string of bell, man. I hated the character. I thought he was diabolical, but boy, it is an amazingly layered

diabolical dude. A dude that had the type of charisma that allowed him to pretty much do anything

He had no loyalty to anybody but himself, but he seduced us all

And when you were able to do that, you know, that's a pretty rarefied air