Buddy Duress, finest identified for starring reverse Robert Pattinson within the Safdie Brothers hit “Good Time,” has died … in accordance with his brother.
Christopher Stathis confirmed the information to Folks Tuesday saying Buddy died again in November … a demise Christopher attributes to cardiac arrest introduced on by medicine.
Duress has a number of credit on IMDb together with “Person to Person,” “The Great Darkened Days,” “Beware of Dog,” “Flinch,” “Funny Pages” and “Heaven Knows What.”
Buddy handled drug abuse and authorized points for a lot of his grownup life it appears. He met director Josh Safdie after his launch from NYC’s Rikers Island jail — the place he did time for drug costs — and filmed his half in “Heaven Knows What.”
After that, he was rearrested for not going to rehab.
Josh and his brother Benny Safdie requested Buddy to journal his experiences in jail — which partly served as a foundation for “Good Time” in accordance with the Los Angeles Times.
It seems Buddy nonetheless has 2 extra initiatives set to be launched posthumously … “Mass State Lottery” and a brief movie known as “Skull” needs to be popping out over the course of the subsequent yr.
He’s survived by Christopher and his mom Jo-Anne.
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Buddy was 38.
RIP