Aw, man, sometimes--rarely?--you feel a real thing for an actor, for their work, I mean, and it's a personal loss when they die.
I felt that way when Philip Seymour Hoffman died, and now again, Michael K. Williams, dead at 54. (NYT obit)
With both deaths, I feel the loss of their future work.
DO YOUR WORK now.I looked up his Instagram, www.instagram.com/bkbmg. MKM seems like he was an amazing person--also, looked great in orange.
I screencapped a few of his posts:
I put this, below, on my work's social media today (I'm doing it again, temporarily). It seems trite, but you know coming from a hard place, it's true--lotta heavy stuff in life, but we can lift one another up.
Omar Little, from The Wire:
fucking drugs
ReplyDeleteLINDA SUE: That's exactly it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know of these people, but 54 is way too young to die.
ReplyDeleteYour previous post was the reason I smiled yesterday.
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