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Six Degrees of Richard Keyser

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I’ve always prided myself in spotting familiar faces while watching movies and TV shows. In fact, it drives me crazy when I’m sure that I’ve seen an actor in another film, but I just can’t place him. Well the other night I had a first. While watching The Wire: Season 3 on DVD, I recognized one of the teenage drug-dealers from his previous role as himself in the award-winning documentary The Boys of Baraka (that’s him, on the left). Apparently the filmmakers, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, helped Richard Keyser get the gig on The Wire. If you’ve seen The Boys of Baraka, I’m sure you’ll find this story as fascinating is I do: troubled Baltimore kid turns globetrotter and documentary subject and then becomes a professional actor who plays the role of a troubled Baltimore kid. Crazy!

| | Posted on April 27, 2007

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Talk about art imitating life!

Posted on 2007 04 27 by Jennifer Gallardo

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