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The Inside Story on How “The Wire” Was Cast: An Oral History: Clarke Peters (Det. Lester Freamon): I know that for Bunk and for Wendell, he wanted to and needed to [meet him]. I think that he and Bunk, the real Bunk, wound up hanging out quite a bit. I’m glad that I didn’t, because I was able to fabricate something that was close to [Lester], that brought my own humanity to the character and my own investigations into what local government was about.

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