Actress Leslie Jordan is still missed by many, including Mayim Bialik and the “Call Me Kat” cast.
The 67-year-old comedian died suddenly on October 24 when he suffered a medical event that caused him to crash into a building in Hollywood, California. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office later listed his cause of death as “sudden cardiac dysfunction” due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Mayim Bialik says the ‘Call Me Kat’ actress is waiting on set for Leslie Jordan when she passes
On Tuesday’s episode of the “Jennifer Hudson Show” (via Entertainment Weekly ), the “Blossom” child star revealed that the entire cast and crew were already on set waiting for Leslie to show up when they received the tragic news that she had crashed. vehicle.
“It was a sudden thing. We were all at work and waiting for him to show up at work, so it was very, very, very complicated to have the whole crew there and the whole cast,” explains Mayim, adding that they have become a tight-knit team. “one of the first shows” from the shutdown of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“We kind of became this little COVID unit,” Mayim recalls. “We’re often the only people we interact with outside of whoever’s in our house so we’re all very close.”
“People know Leslie Jordan as Leslie Jordan; not necessarily like the characters played in our show,” he continued. “He’s been in people’s lives and, especially during COVID, he’s been in people’s Instagram feeds and a lot of people have really connected with him and he loves it. He likes to be approached. He likes to be loved.”
‘Call Me Kat’ Leslie Jordan’s Character Phil Moves To Tahiti
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The sitcom “Call Me Kat” decided to give her character, Phil, a proper send-off by having her character move to Tahiti with her new husband. At the end of the episode, stars Mayim Bialik, Cheyenne Jackson, Kyla Pratt, Julian Gant, and Swoosie Kurtz broke the fourth wall to address Leslie’s departure with viewers.
“What we’re doing here is giving Phil a happy ending. “All we’re really doing is mourning the loss of our dear friend, Leslie Jordan,” Bialik said. “He is irreplaceable. We will miss him very much. Love, light, Leslie.”
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“Jeopardy!” co-host also discussed the honor with host Jennifer Hudson. “When he passed away, we all — it’s rare to find a group of people who were so unanimous about something so quickly and we all just said, ‘We want him to live forever,'” he said.
“We all felt this was a very difficult thing to do. There’s no right way to do it, but our showrunners, Jim Patterson and Maria Ferrari, they really got us through it but it’s very emotional to decide how you grieve too, while having to act as a grieving person?” he continued.
Mayim Bialik Says She’s ‘Grateful’ For Opportunity To Work With Leslie Jordan
They broke the mold when they made Leslie Jordan. He was a dear mentor and friend. I will miss her so much – can’t imagine she’s gone. Rest in peace, sweet friend. pic.twitter.com/c9kN0vkxyM
— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) October 24, 2022
“This whole season for us feels like the season we lost Leslie,” Mayim concluded. “It’s difficult, and we’re grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him the way we did and in the time of his life that we were able to work with him.”
At the time of his death, the series halted production to give the cast and crew time to mourn. The “Call Me Kat” crew released a statement shortly after his death describing the late comedian as “gentle, smart, mischievous and funny.” The statement reads:
“There are no words to express the loss we have experienced as a Call Me Kat cast and family. Leslie Jordan is larger than life. He’s a Southern man; gentle, smart, mischievous, and funny. We knew and loved him at the height of his joy and happiness and couldn’t imagine a world without our Leslie: the man who would spit on his contact lenses before putting them in his eyes, the man who had a story about every man in Hollywood and some women too, the man who lived for make people laugh. We will take time to grieve and celebrate the many gifts that Leslie gave to us and to the world and we appreciate privacy during this time.”
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