Bill Cosby pays tribute to TV son Malcolm-Jamal Warner after his death

Bill Cosby spoke on Monday to deplore the loss of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played his televised son for eight seasons on the Hit television of the 1980s The Cosby Show.

“He has always been a big studio and I really liked working with him,” Cosby said in an interview with ABC News. “He was very professional. He always knew his role … He has always known his lines, and he always knew where to go.”

Warner was a young teenager when he played the role of Theo Huxable for the first time, one of the five children of Dr. Cliff Huxable de Cosby and his clear wife (Phylicia Rashad). Theo was the couple’s only son in a family who also included Singra (Sabrina Le Beauf), Denise (Lisa Bonet), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) and Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam).

Cosby said he and Warner had remained close after the program in 1992, finishing eight award -winning seasons: “Malcolm regularly calls here.”

In addition, Warner continued to appear in emissions such as Malcolm and Eddie,, Community,, Costumes,, The resident,, 9-1-1And Alert: missing people unit. Warner also organized a podcast, Not all the hoodAnd he was a poet and a musician winner of a Grammy.

Cosby encountered legal problems in the decades that followed the show. The actor denied the allegations of sexual misconduct of dozens of women. While he was found guilty of sexual assault in 2018, he was released for technicality in 2021.

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Cosby’s lawyer refused to share a statement with EW when he was contacted to comment.

In addition to Cosby, Warner was cried by Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson and Questlove, who remembered Warner as having been “a GPS / headlight of safety in adulthood” on the revolutionary series which depicts a black family of upper class.

“Seeing yourself in each episode through your shoes: like being bad in football, wanting clothes outside of my budget, hiding your parents (ear piercings or weeds), living in a respectable house” Jazz vs` `Teen Music” – Pssssssh theo being instrumental to a Lion of Gen X Tent I can also do without “Bologne & Cereal” And for the first time thinking of “What does it mean to be an adult without depending on your parents?” – – Many of us only had the huxatables to live by proxy and I was Malcolm.

The artist of Roots said that Warner had been a supporter of the first supporters of the group, and he said that he was disappointed that they had never collaborated as they had planned.