Williams received it after being slashed with a razor during a fight on his 25th birthday. The scar that ran vertically down his face was a bonus. It’s all the game, though, right?”Īsked in court how a man gets away for years robbing drug dealers and lives to tell the tale, he says coolly: “Day at a time, I suppose.” The character’s calm fearlessness was expressed by Williams’s natural poise and stillness. When a lawyer accuses him of being a parasite, he responds: “I got the shotgun. A high-calibre writing team, including the crime novelists Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos and Richard Price, ensured that he was eloquent and averse to profanity, and even permitted him to distil the show’s philosophy into an aside. Omar’s appeal derived from more than just his sexuality. And he’s the toughest, baddest guy on the show, but he’s gay. “That’s not an endorsement – he is not my favourite person – but he’s a fascinating character: a gay gangster who only robs drug dealers, and then gives back, sort of a Robin Hood.
“Omar’s a great guy,” said Barack Obama during his first presidential campaign. (“Omar coming!” cry the teenage dealers, scurrying away.)Īn unapologetically gay character, let alone one whose sex life is shown with such frankness, was a novelty in the macho hothouse of the TV crime genre.
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Williams, who has died aged 54, Omar was enigmatic, seductive and defiant, not to mention confident enough in his own skin to pop to the corner store for cereal dressed only in a turquoise silk dressing gown. One eccentric figure towered above the rest: Omar Little, the gay, dandyish highwayman who gets his kicks, and his cash, from robbing the mighty, murderous Barksdale clan.
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