‘Good Time’ star Buddy Duress dies aged 38
nme.comRobert Pattinson in the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time, has died at the age of 38.The news was confirmed by his brother Christopher Stathis in a statement released to People yesterday (February 27), who confirmed that he died from a “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail” in November 2023.Duress made his acting debut in the Safdie Brothers’ previous film Heaven Knows What in 2014, after meeting Josh Safdie shortly after his release from Rikers Island prison in the Bronx, New York.Deeply sad to find out Buddy Duress passed away.
Without exaggeration, he’s the best performer in Good Time, second only to Robert Pattinson himself. This is only part of one of my favorite scenes of the entire 2010s.
pic.twitter.com/2Ybj7BBd4z— Jacob Ethington (@JacobTalks4ever) February 24, 2024Duress, who was born Michael Stathis, met the director while he was on the run from a drug in-patient program at the institution, and completed the filming in 2013.
By the time of the film’s premiere at the New York Film Festival in 2014, Duress had been caught by police and was back in Rikers Island.“You know, I still look back at it.
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