In 2019, Wendell Pierce was walking through London’s Piccadilly Circus to make it to that night’s performance of “Death of a Salesman,” when he stumbled upon a massive billboard. The ad was for the latest season of “Jack Ryan,” the Prime Video series in which he also stars. As he looked at himself on the Technicolor screen, it struck him that the London Film Festival was also screening his latest film, “Burning Cane,” for which he’d won best actor at Tribeca.
Headed to the theater tonight to perform in DEATH OF A SALESMAN something caught my eye on the huge electronic billboard in Piccadilly Circus, London @jackryanamazon @SalesmanWestEnd pic.twitter.com/MYRx6WxWzA— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) October 29, 2019
In this moment, Pierce developed his personal mantra: “I want to do the trifecta every year,” the Juilliard grad remembers thinking, meaning he would star in a theater production, a TV series and a film annually. “This is what I trained for.”
But, this month, he raises the stakes to a quadfecta.
This weekend, lucky ticket holders can watch him onstage in the Shakespeare Theater Company’s production of “Othello,” then head home to catch the Season 3 finale of “Elsbeth” on CBS, and finally — after refueling by popping a bag of popcorn — stream the new “Jack Ryan” movie, subtitled “Ghost War,” on Prime Video. Or, if they wait a couple of weeks, they can sign up for the quadruple feature of Shakespeare, the “Columbo”-like comedy, the military action movie and the modern-day drama of the “Power” universe, in “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” where Pierce plays a rare robber to his usual cop roles. (The Starz series premieres on June 12.)










