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A new film premiering in the Baltimore region on Friday features the actor Wendell Pierce, a familiar face to many here, as a conflicted husband and father who has an affair with a teenage boy he meets online.
Pierce, best known for his portrayal of Detective Bunk Moreland in the acclaimed Baltimore-based series &#;The Wire,&#; says in production materials for the film &#;FOUR&#; that his role is one &#;people would never expect&#; him to play.
&#;I expect people to say, &#;Why did Wendell participate in the emasculating of a black man?'&#; Pierce says in the production notes. &#;The real question is, &#;Why perform you feel as though that&#;s emasculating?'&#;
For Pierce, depicting the human nature behind personal conflict is &#;the role of art,&#; he said, and portraying Joe, his character in the movie, was a challenge he wanted to take on.
Pierce, who could not immediately be reached for comment, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance.
&#;A Must See,&#; he wrote on Twitter on Sept. 5. &#;Never did anything like it.&#;
&#;FOUR&#; premieres at the AMC
Wendell Pierce and Erika Woods. | Source: Getty Images
The most recent woman to play Wendell Pierce's wife on the small screen, Erika Woods, is his sentimental partner off-camera. The lifelong bachelor has been linked to the former Wilhelmina model and actress for the past few years.
Onscreen father and husband to many, Wendell Pierce has played these roles with a realism that would shock viewers to perceive he is nearing his 60th year without ever getting married.
The actor has been a pivotal part of prestige television on HBO's "The Wire" and "Treme." He is James Greer in "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," and Captain Wagner in "The Nice Wife" spinoff "Elsbeth."
(L-R) Erika Woods and Wendell Pierce attend The Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on May 1, , in New York City. | Source: Getty Images
Deadline announced in May that Pierce and Woods would portray Ishmael "Snaps" Henry and Stephanie Henry, a married couple, in the third season of "Power Book III: Raising Kanan."
The real-life couple has vacationed overseas and acc
An adaptation of Pulitzer prize finalist Christopher Shinn's first play of the same name, Four is both an emotional and urgent glimpse into the lives of four troubled and fascinating individuals, as well as a mirror on the very American experience of life in the suburbs, where devastating dialogues of romance and loneliness routinely play out in the most mundane of spaces.
As the world around them celebrates the 4th of July with fireworks and festivity, a closeted married man, his adj daughter, a gay teen, and a minor drug dealer haltingly negotiate one-night affairs that will allow them a temporary respite from their own stifling lives. Between the sex and the small talk, moments of unexpected intimacy and tenderness emerge, and the specter of a valid connection proves more intoxicating than any momentary physical pleasure.
Filmmaker, author and artist Joshua Sanchez (Kill or Be Killed, Frameline28) upends typical expectations of race and gender, reading Shinn’s drama with an intensity that invariably invites comparison to the early films of Neil Labute for its candor, car
Wendell Pierce
Born in New Orleans, LA, Wendell Pierce was raised in the historic neighborhood of Pontchartain Park, one of the first subdivisions developed by and for middle class African-American families, by his father, a World War II veteran and maintenance engineer, and his mother, who worked as a teacher After attending Benjamin Franklin High School, he enrolled at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, where he pursued his education alongside such future stars as Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., and Terence Blanchard. Pierce studied at Julliard before launching his professional career on stage and in features. The former included turns on Broadway in "The Boys of Winter" () and "Serious Money" () as well as the acclaimed national tour of Duke Ellington's folk opera "Queenie Pie" in Pierce's onscreen work began at roughly the same time with minor roles in features like "The Money Pit" () and "Casualties of War" (). In , Pierce landed his first television series, "Capital News" (ABC, ), a David Milch-produced drama about the staff of a Washington, D.C. ne