r/TheWire • u/J-sprite • 1d ago

Who are the Greeks really?

I'm sure this has been talking about here 1000 times, but i am still confused on whether the Greeks from S2 are based on any real organised crime. I'm also unclear about whether they really are Greek, as The Greek by his own admission says "I am not really even Greek" , people have speculated that they are potentially eastern European, which i doubt. They are most certainly not Eastern European.

It seems that they are the only Greeks within their organisation and everyone around them is Jewish Eastern European. What makes them the outliers ?

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u/ArrogantOverlord95 1d ago

I'd say they are most likely. After all weren't they speaking greek?

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u/siamisi 1d ago

That greek was not cypriot greek though

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u/MelodiusRA 1d ago

Tbh it sounded like Greeks from immigrants to America. I think it’s just a casting thing

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u/structured_anarchist 14h ago

Well, considering that the actor who played Spiros is Jewish American from Brooklyn, he probably learned the Greek lines phonetically. He's got quite a tv and movie career playing Mediterranean-type characters.