‘The Wire’ actor Clarke Peters explains why he couldn’t say no to ‘The Boroughs’

“He’s the guy I want to be when I grow up,” Peters says of his Wire character, Lester Freamon. In The Boroughs, Peters plays a member of a retirement community that’s plagued by mysterious forces.

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This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. So many of us became aware of what a great actor Clarke Peters is from his role in one of the best TV series ever made, HBOs “The Wire.” He played police detective Lester Freamon, who helped track down the