When "The Wire" debuted 20 years ago on HBO and introduced us to teenage drug dealer Malik "Poot" Carr, actor Tray Chaney was just getting his start. The role, which included many emotional scenes, made a big impact on Chaney as an actor and as a person, he shared with Salon's D. Watkins. "Those different layers and those different arcs for me, playing the character Poot, I think back on it and I say, man, that was shaping me," Chaney said. "That was molding me into the actor that I am today."