The ballad of Omar Little, Michael K. Williams’s enduring role – The Washington Post

The role, though, wasn’t easy on Williams. While portraying Omar, he fell into addiction and “lived a double life as a doper in Newark’s most dangerous neighborhoods — doing drugs ‘in scary places with scary people,’ ” he told NJ.com in 2012. As Williams recalled, he began feeling like Omar, like a character — as he struggled with drug addiction. “I suffered from a huge identity crisis. … In the end, I was more comfortable with Omar’s skin than my own. That was a problem.”