News Reg E. Cathey has died at 59

[The Nth Doctor]

Character actor Reg E. Cathey has died at the age of 59 because of lung cancer.

This breaks my heart because I've always loved him and his voice. He had such wonderful characters in Oz, The Wire, House of Cards, and so many others! You will be greatly missed, sir! Rest in peace.

Fucking cancer needs to go to hell already.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Very sad. What a great actor.

 

[auntiehill]

How sad! He was wonderful on "House of Cards." He had a fantastic voice.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

An excerpt from the soon-to-be-released All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire. I didn't even know this book was coming out until I found this excerpt in one of the obituaries for Reg E. Cathey.

Reg E. Cathey (Norman Wilson): Norman is still one of my favorite characters. Before, I had done [Martin] Querns in Oz, which I loved doing. What was great about The Wire is that you had all these different black characters on the same show. When I was living out in L.A., I would audition for the black guy on the show, and that would be the only black guy. He wouldn’t have any black friends. Maybe he’d have a black wife or black girlfriend. He was the black guy, and usually he was upstanding and honorable, because everyone wants to have a good role model. But in The Wire, there were all different types of characters and different types of human variables, and it was fabulous to play. In terms of Norman, to play a smart man, a man with brains, a man who drank and smoked and made mistakes and told truth to power because he just didn’t give a fuck anymore — it was so much fun. And then David would joke with me that he would give me these one-liners and then he’d come up to me before, these perfect little one-liners, and say, “Okay, we’re not going to spend a lot of time on this. I want you to get it right in one time. Don’t be fucking around. But no pressure.”​

 

[Captaindemotion]

Loved him in anything I saw him in. I’d have thought he was older, TBH, and this is shockingly young. RIP.