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Buddy Duress, the actor who appeared in two Safdie Brothers movies together with 2017’s Good Time starring Robert Pattinson, died final November of what his brother stated this week was “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail.” Duress was 38.
Duress’ dying was introduced on social media final week by director Jay Karales, whose upcoming movie Mass State Lottery options Duress. The reason for dying was introduced yesterday to People by the actor’s brother Christopher Stathis (Duress was born Michael C. Stathis).
“This man was an absolute treasure,” Karales, identified professionally as LowRes Wünderbred, wrote. “Surely, Buddy Duress was one of the vital entertaining individuals I’ve ever met and his tales have been unmatched. I keep in mind seeing him in Good Time in 2017 and saying, ‘That’s what the way forward for performing must be. That man.’ He introduced a sure authenticity and charisma to the display screen that you simply simply don’t see anymore. It was a dream to get him in Mass State Lottery, and I really feel privileged to have been his director and his good friend.”
Born in Queens, New York, in Might 1985, Duress’ performing debut got here in Josh and Benny Safdie’s 2014 movie Heaven Is aware of What, starring Caleb Landry Jones and Arielle Holmes. The brothers reunited with Duress three years later for the crime drama Good Time, wherein he portrayed the drug-dealing partner-in-crime to Pattinson’s character.
The Safdies solid Duress of their 2014 drug dependancy drama Heaven Is aware of What a 12 months after Josh Safdie met Duress following his launch from New York’s Rikers Island on drug costs. After lacking a scheduled in-patient program appointment, Duress was re-arrested; Heaven Is aware of What premiered on the New York Movie Competition whereas Duress was locked up.
Even whereas increase a movie resume that included such credit as Individual to Individual (2017), The Nice Darkened Days (2018), Watch out for Canine (2020), and Humorous Pages (2022), amongst others, Duress continued to have run-ins with the legislation. In a 2019 New York Publish article headlined “Buddy Duress needs to be an enormous star, however he can’t keep out of Rikers,” the actor was reported to have been arrested a number of occasions that 12 months, together with for grand larceny, menacing, legal possession of brass knuckles and medicines, and for threatening to burn down his mom’s dwelling in Queens.
On the time of the Publish article, Duress’ mom had sought an order of safety from him. “I don’t blame her,” Duress informed the Publish in a telephone interview from Rikers. “I’m not simple to stay with.”
Along with his brother Christopher, Duress is survived by his mom Jo-Anne.
