Morris Chestnut Fondly Remembers Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s premature and tragic passing continues to be recent within the thoughts of Morris Chestnut.

Talking with Folks, Morris Chestnut had nothing however fond reminiscences of his The Resident co-star, Malcolm-Jamal Warner. 

Within the interview, the Watson star remembered Warner as “such a very good dude whereas including that he “nonetheless can’t consider that Malcolm’s 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 collection common. 

In the course of the interview, Chestnut pointed to a photograph of them collectively on set, telling the journal, “I keep in mind this scene. Our characters didn’t like one another. He was very protecting of everyone on the present, and that’s form 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 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 truth, he had one in every of my favourite episodes on The Cosby Present with the Gordon Gartrell shirt — that’s simply one in every of my favourite all-time episodes.”

Chestnut revealed that he and Warner mentioned the basic Cosby Present episode after they met 2 years later.