Michaela Zee Buddy Duress (né Michael C. Stathis), who starred alongside Robert Pattinson in the Safdie brothers’ 2017 crime thriller “Good Time,” has died.
He was 38. Duress’ brother Christopher Stathis revealed to People on Tuesday that the actor died in November 2023 of “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail.” Duress was born in Queens, New York, in May 1985.
He made his acting debut in Josh and Benny Safdie’s 2014 film “Heaven Knows What,” which also starred Caleb Landry Jones and Arielle Holmes.
In “Good Time,” Duress portrayed Ray, a drug dealer who becomes Connie Nikas’ (Pattinson) partner in crime as the two attempt to retrieve a Sprite bottle containing acid.
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