The Cosby Present’s Malcolm-Jamal Warner sadly handed away on the age of 54 after a drowning incident over the summer season, and stars together with Angela Bassett and Tracee Ellis Ross (to call simply two) wasted no time in paying tribute to the late actor. He had a protracted listing of credit to his identify, starting from the comedy that launched him to fame to dramas like The Resident. Now, the actor’s ultimate efficiency is coming to the small display screen in an upcoming episode of Fox’s Homicide in a Small City Season 2, and main man Rossif Sutherland recalled the expertise of working with him.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s arrival within the fall 2025 TV schedule will occur in early October, and he joins Homicide in a Small City as a visitor star. When leads Rossif Sutherland and Kristsin Kreuk spoke with CinemaBlend forward of Season 2, Sutherland solely had the very best of reward for the Cosby Present favourite. He mentioned of Warner:
He is on the third episode of the present, which airs on October 7. He performs the daddy of a daughter that he raises on his personal, and he is suspected. He is the prime suspect for the homicide of his ex-wife. He introduced so many layers to that character. He actually wished to play someone who had his coronary heart on his sleeve, all of the whereas the character was portrayed on the web page as a fairly offended and fairly righteous man, for good purpose. He was left alone, deserted by this lady who now dared present up, and now she’s lifeless, and he is being accused.
There aren’t essentially at all times going to be numerous layers to characters who solely seem in a single episode of a criminal offense present, however that evidently gained’t be the case with Malcolm-Jamal Warner in his ultimate efficiency. I can’t say that I’m shocked; he stood out as a visitor star on The Irrational reverse Jesse L. Martin, as only one instance. Rossif Sutherland went on:
It is a spot the place issues change fairly a bit, change on the go, and it takes a sure sort of actor to be fast on his ft and adaptable, and he was all of that. I want I might had extra time to talk to him, simply as two human beings, as a substitute of simply buying and selling off the phrases scripted to us by writers. However he was a beautiful, light soul.
Kristin Kreuk revealed that although she didn’t work with Malcolm-Jamal Warner throughout his episode of Homicide in a Small City, “everybody spoke very, very extremely” of him on set. The wait to view his episode isn’t an excessive amount of longer, with Rossif Sutherland’s affirmation that it’s going to air on October 7.
You’ll be capable of watch the Homicide in a Small City story that includes Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s ultimate efficiency on Tuesday, October 7 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox, forward of a brand new episode of Doc. In the event you favor to stream your tv, episodes of the crime drama can be found streaming subsequent day with a Hulu subscription. You will discover some transient photographs of Warner’s character within the video under:
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner acquired an outpouring of tributes within the wake of his loss of life on July 20, together with Cosby Present co-star Geoffrey Owens saying that the tragedy left him nearly “speechless” and describing him as a “beautiful man” with a “candy and delicate soul.” Extra lately, his mom received candid about dropping her son and the “indescribable ache that resonated” by way of her physique. Our ideas right here at CinemaBlend stay together with his mates, household, and family members.
As for Homicide in a Small City, the Fox drama follows Police Chief Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland) and librarian-turned-local politician Cassandra Lee (Kristin Kreuk) within the small city of Gibsons, with a surprisingly excessive homicide charge relative to the inhabitants. Season 2 does deal with that situation early on, nevertheless, in addition to one regarding Kreuk’s Cassandra. The total first season is streaming on Hulu now.