Throughout a current interview with PEOPLE, Morris Chestnut mirrored on working with Malcolm-Jamal Warner on the medical drama collection, The Resident, and the way the deceased actor’s position in The Cosby Present “resonated” with him essentially the most.
Chestnut, who performed neurosurgeon Barrett Cain in The Resident, mentioned that he “nonetheless can’t imagine that Malcolm’s not right here.” Warner performed Dr. AJ Austin within the medical drama collection.
“He was such a superb dude,” the 56-year-old mentioned earlier than speaking a couple of image of the 2 of them on set. “I keep in mind this scene. Our characters didn’t like one another. He was very protecting of all people on the present and that’s form of how he was.”
Chestnut additionally touched on The Cosby Present and the way he resonated with Warner’s character, although he had not ventured into appearing on the time. Warner performed Theo Huxtable in The Cosby Present.
“I can see myself, as an actor, in his character,” Chestnut mentioned. “I hadn’t determined to behave at the moment, however that in all probability was one of many first instances I used to be like, ‘Wow, that’s form of cool. This dude’s an actor on TV, we form of look alike.’ Matter of reality, he had considered one of my favourite episodes on The Cosby Present with Gordon Gartrell shirt, that’s simply considered one of my favourite all-time episodes.”
Chestnut mentioned that he and Warner even had a dialog about that individual episode whereas they have been on set for The Resident.
“He was telling me a pair tales about working in New York. After 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,” Chestnut recalled. “[He was] simply an unbelievable dude. I hate what occurred to him. Relaxation in peace.”
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As beforehand reported by Face2Face Africa, Warner by accident drowned after he was dragged by a water present at Playa Grande in Limon, Costa Rica, on July 20. Warner, 54, underwent an post-mortem, and his reason behind dying was dominated as unintentional asphyxiation by submersion. Preliminary stories said that he was vacationing in Costa Rica together with his household on the time of the deadly accident.
Throughout an interview on Good Morning America, Warner’s mom, Pamela Warner, instructed co-anchor Robin Roberts that she screamed “from the underside” of her “soul” when she realized about her son’s dying, ABC7 New York reported.
“What got here up and what got here out was large,” she mentioned. “It was an indescribable ache that resonated by my physique.”
“That was his time,” she mentioned about her son’s dying. “That was the way wherein he was to transition, and that is what I imagine and what I really feel.”
Regardless of dropping her son, Pamela Warner expressed her gratitude for being “chosen” to be Warner’s mom. “I believe greater than something, I’m at peace with the whole lot that occurred. There was nothing left on the desk,” she mentioned.
“There was no shoulda, coulda woulda. I want I might have mentioned this, I want I might have finished this,” she added. “I don’t have that. I really feel that our journey collectively as mom and son was full.”
The deceased 54-year-old is survived by his spouse, Tenisha Warner, and daughter.
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