Bill Cosby said that when he came to know about death Malcolm-Jamal WarnerWho played his son on “The Cosby Show”, he spoke with Filicia Rashad, who played the mother.
In an interview, Cosby told “CBS Weekend News” anchor Jerika Duncan, “We were hugging each other about a cute friend on the phone … Malcolm was always working with everyone.”
Warner’s death shook the entertainment world on Monday when it was known that the artist was drowned in Costa Rica a day earlier during a family holiday. Officials said the 54 -year -old man was obviously pulled from a current from the Caribbean coast of the Central American nation and could not be revived.
A Cosby spokesperson said in a statement that the 88 -year -old former actor was destroyed when he came to know that Warner had died. Kosby compared to learning the news when he was told that her son Anis was killed in 1997, according to Spokesperson Andrew Wet. “It felt it in the same way,” Vishut said.
Kosby told Duncan that he had last talked about his music career with Warner three months ago. In 2015, Warner won Grammy for the best traditional R&B performance with Robert Glaster Experiment and Lalh Hathaway with a cover by Stevy Wonder’s “Jesus Children of America”. Warner was also nominated for the Best spoken word Kavita album in 2023 Grammes.
Kosby said, “He was very proud of what he had done.”
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From 1984 to 1992, the US saw Warner playing on a large -scale “The Cosby Show” for the completeness of the show’s run, Ekering Warner an ami nomination for an outstanding actor in a comedy series in 1986. In an interview with Duncan, Cosby praised Warner’s dedication to the profession.
“He was never afraid to go to his room and study, and ensure that whatever he had learned in the acting school,” said Cosby.
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In 2015, as Cosby faced several allegations of sexual harassment, Warner told Associated Press that “The Cosby Show” lost his place as a counter to portray the negative stereotypes of colored people in films and TV.
Warner told AP, “And the fact is that we do not have the same thing, this is the thing that hurts me the most because in some generations Huxtables must have been just a fairy tale.”
Cosby was convicted in a Pennsylvania Court in 2018, but was sentenced Reversed in 2021,
In 2023, Warner spoke about his experience on “The Cosby Show” in an interview with CBS News Pittsburgh.
He said, “That show had such an impact on culture in America, but also how you know, black people saw themselves globally and how the rest of the world saw us,” he said. “So I am proud to be a part of that heritage, and it has been a great ride since then.”
