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Ziggy Goes Down: Actor James Ransone on Playing the ‘JarJar Binks’ of ‘The Wire’

With The Wire’s re-release in HD over the holidays, we’ve taken time to explore the transformational series with a decade’s worth of insights. And one thing that immediately struck us was: People still hate Ziggy Sobotka. (Whether or not people just hate Season Two in general is still a matter of hotly contested debate.) We asked actor James Ransone--who played the swaggering, duck-owning, genitalia-displaying Ziggy--for some reflections on the character.*
By Drew Grant

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