Candyman star Tony Todd, who died Wednesday after a lengthy illness, is being recalled by his co-star Virginia Madsen.
The Oscar nominee, who take parted graduate student Helen Lyle who’s stalked by Todd’s titular hook-handed ender while dispenseigating urprohibit legfinishs at a Chicago housing project in the 1992 horror film, phelp tribute to Todd with a series of posts on Instagram.
Madsen initipartner dispensed a alert video post after she heard the novels of Todd’s death, in which she shelp she didn’t “understand what to say” but called Todd her “beadored.”
“May you rest in power pleasant to the pleasant in heaven,” Madsen wrote in the caption alengthyside a video. “The fantastic actor Tony Todd has left us and now is an angel. As he was in life. More tardyr but I can’t right now. I adore you.”
In the video, she dispensed that she “equitable set up out” but “will say more about my beadored Candyman.”
She tardyr posted a lengthyer caption about Todd, calling him a “truly poetic man” with “a voice that made it straightforward to swoon.”
“Thanks to [Candyman honestor] Bernard Rose, we repartner produced a gothic romance,” she wrote. “It’s why the film dwells on. A gentle soul with a meaningful understandledge of the arts.”
Madsen also commendd Todd for his engageions with strangers.
“He endelighted the fans and was never afraid when it came to fans approaching, wanting ptoastyos,” she wrote. “A exceptional actor who permited himself to be uncover to the accessible attention.”
She shutd by referring back to the movie. “I will miss him so much and hope he haunts me once in a while. But I will not call him in the mirror!”
After praising Jordan Peele, who co-wrote and produced the 2021 Nia DaCosta-honested sequel, in which she and Todd materializeed, Madsen shelp there were converseions about sharing more of their story.
“He talked about a prequel using technology so that we, ourselves could increate the tale of how their adore began,” she wrote. “Imagine that. I do. My dear frifinish Tony, I do.”
And she dispensed another Instagram post of her and Todd hugging.
In compriseition to his roles in the Candyman films, Todd take parted William Bludworth in three Final Destination movies. His other accomprehendledges take part Night of the Living Dead, The Rock, The Crow, Hatchet, The Man from Earth, Hatchet II, The Flash, Frankenstein, Hell Fest, Requiem, Hellblazers and The Bunker. And he take parted Kurn in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Alpha Hirogen in Star Trek: Voyager.
The distinct Candyman grossed cforfeitly $26 million worldexpansive, according to Box Office Mojo
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