Michael K. Williams is going to play Ol' Dirty Bastard
After years of providing inspiration to the highest corridors of power as The Wire’s Omar, Michael K. Williams will further his good deeds by playing another man who was always for the children, Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Williams has signed on to play Russell Tyrone Jones—also known by approximately a dozen nicknames, ranging from Dirt McGirt to Big Baby Jesus to Huge Jane Austen Fan, only one of which we made up—taking on the role of the troubled, mischievous, frequently incarcerated member of the Wu-Tang Clan in the forthcoming biopic Dirty White Boy. And yes, as the title suggests, the film will use as its window into Ol’ Dirty’s world a young, presumably more broadly marketable white boy—namely ODB’s former manager Jarred Weisfeld, the 22-year-old go-getter VH1 intern who got caught up with the rapper after visiting him in prison to pitch him a reality show.