![]() ![]() “We both talk about this work on almost purely athletic terms,” Bernthal says in a recent Zoom session with Green, Pelecanos and Simon. Both former baseball players - Green considered a career in the MLB, and Bernthal played pro ball in Moscow while studying theater there in the early 2000s - the two shared a close bond on set. Bernthal reteams with his King Richard director Reinaldo Marcus Green, who helms all six episodes of We Own This City. He is played in the series by Jon Bernthal, whose extensive research for the role included ride-alongs with active police and numerous conversations with Jenkins and his former colleagues. The group’s ringleader, Detective Wayne Jenkins, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Based on the book of the same name by former Sun reporter Justin Fenton (one of Simon’s successors on the paper’s crime beat), the show addresses the high-profile scandal that rocked the BPD in 2017, when several plainclothes officers from the department’s elite Gun Trace Task Force unit were convicted of racketeering - among many other charges - for their abusive practices and their role in a conspiracy to distribute stolen drugs. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Succession' Star Reacts to That "Kill List," Talks Golden Parachutes and Kendall Roy's AscensionĪfter this grand tour of American dysfunction, Simon and George Pelecanos - a crime novelist who wrote several episodes of The Wire and co-created several series with Simon - have returned to Baltimore with their new miniseries, We Own This City, which premieres April 25. ![]()
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