Wendell Pierce on Jack Ryan and the show's uncanny prediction of world affairs
Wendell Pierce in Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime Video.
Like many of us, Wendell Pierce couldn’t believe what he was seeing when Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in early 2022. But for the veteran actor – best known for playing detective William 'Bunk' Moreland in The Wire – the shock carried an additional register of deja vu. He had, after all, spent the previous year starring in a conspiracy thriller in which reactionary forces in Moscow tried to boost Russia’s ailing prestige by invading neighbouring countries and then attempted to start World War III. In the worst way imaginable, life was imitating art.
“Let me tell you, every show we have done – every season is written almost two years ago on and they usually comes out a year afterwards,” says Pierce, speaking affably over a computer connection from London.
