Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s premature and tragic passing remains to be contemporary within the thoughts of Morris Chestnut.
Talking with Folks, Morris Chestnut had nothing however fond recollections of his The Resident co-star, Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
Within the interview, the Watson star remembered Warner as “such a superb dude whereas including that he “nonetheless can’t imagine that Malcolm’s now not right here.”
The Cosby Present star tragically died in a drowning accident whereas on a household trip in Costa Rica again in July.
Chestnut joined the solid of the Fox medical drama in season 3 whereas Warner was already a sequence common.
In the course of the interview, Chestnut pointed to a photograph of them collectively on set, telling the journal, “I bear in mind this scene. Our characters didn’t like one another. He was very protecting of everyone on the present, and that’s sort of how he was.”
The Greatest Man actor touched on the primary time he noticed Warner as the long-lasting character, Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Present, and the way it resonated with him.
“I can see myself, as an actor, in his character,” Chestnut stated. “I hadn’t determined to behave at the moment, however that most likely was one of many first instances I used to be like, ‘Wow, that’s sort of cool. This dude’s an actor on TV, we sort of look alike.’ Matter of reality, he had one among my favourite episodes on The Cosby Present with the Gordon Gartrell shirt — that’s simply one among my favourite all-time episodes.”
Chestnut revealed that he and Warner mentioned the traditional Cosby Present episode once they met 2 years later.
“He was telling me a pair tales about working in New York. Once I first got here to that solid, he was like, ‘Hey, let’s go seize a chew to eat.’ So we went out to dinner … [He was] simply an unimaginable dude. I hate what occurred to him. Relaxation in peace,” Chestnut remembered.
Certainly, gone too quickly.