Celebs are mourning the loss of Michael K. Williams. 💔
. “I was on drugs, and I was in jeopardy of destroying everything that I had worked so hard for. And I came in [those church] doors, and I met a man who had never even heard of, much less watched it. He was somewhere else in the Bronx preaching at another church when I first went there. And he stopped everything he was doing, ran back to New Jersey just because his team at the church told him that someone … was in trouble and needed to speak to him. He never judged. You know, he just nudged.
The Emmy nominee noted that his drug use stemmed from not feeling “worthy of the opportunity” to star in the HBO show. “I definitely wore that dark energy that [my character], Omar, was,” Williams explained. “He was a dark soul, tortured soul. And I just woke all of that up and lived in that. And that’s what people was attracted to. I just didn’t know how to differentiate, ‘OK, that is Omar’s love, and then you have Michael’s love.’ The lines got blurred.”
The Bessie star also reflected on getting into a bar fight at age 25, which resulted in the facial scar that he calls a “turning point” in his career. “Directors didn’t want me just to dance in the videos anymore. They wanted me to act out these thug roles,” Williams told. “Mike, roll these dice in this video. Have this fight in this video.’ I was like, ‘All right.’”
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