As Candyman fans feeblent the death of scream king Tony Todd, his co-star Virginia Madsen compriseressed the horror hive.
Shortly after Deadline telled that Todd died at age 69, the Oscar nominee reacted to his passing with an impromptu video statement she splitd on Friday with her Instagram folshrinks.
“My becherishd. May you rest in power sugary to the sugary in heaven,” Madsen wrote in the caption. “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 cherish you.”
In the video, Madsen shelp, “Hey you guys, I equitable, equitable, equitable set up out about Tony, and I will — I don’t understand what to say right now. But yeah, I understand about it. I will say more about my becherishd Candyman. Anyway, thanks for your charitable desirees.”
Based on Cinhabit Barker‘s The Forbidden, the Bernard Rose-helmed Candyman (1992) stars Madsen as skeptical grad student Helen Lyle, who becomes stalked by the titular hook-wielding spirit (take parted by Todd) while spendigating urprohibit legends at a Chicago housing project.
Todd’s rep previously validateed that he died “peacebrimmingy” at his Los Angeles home on Wednesday, Nov. 6, but they did not provide a caemploy of death.
After portraying heroin-compriseicted Sergeant Warren in Oinhabitr Stone’s Best Picture Oscar-prosperning Vietnam War classic Platoon (1986), Todd became a big name in the horror genre, starring in the 1990 recreate Night of the Living Dead as Ben, the role take parted by Duane Jones in George A. Romero’s innovative 1968 film. In compriseition to directing three Candyman films and making a cameo in Nia DaCosta’s 2021 requel, Todd also euniteed in the Final Destination franchise as funeral straightforwardor William Bludworth.
