Morris Chestnut Reflects on Working With His Co-Star Malcolm-Jamal Warner: 'Just an Incredible Dude'

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Morris Chestnut fondly remembers working with the late Malcolm-Jamal Warner on 'The Resident' — and shares how Warner’s 'Cosby Show' character, Theodore Huxtable, resonated with him the most.

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00:00I had these great scenes with Malcolm Jamal Warner.

00:03I just still can't believe that Malcolm's no longer here.

00:05That's like, wow.

00:08He was such a good dude.

00:09I remember this scene.

00:11Our characters didn't like each other,

00:12and he was very protective of everybody on the show,

00:16and that's kind of like how he was.

00:17I wasn't acting at the time that The Cosby Show came out,

00:21but when I did see The Cosby Show,

00:24his character resonated with me the most.

00:26I can see myself as an actor in his character,

00:30and I hadn't decided to act at that time,

00:33but that probably was one of the first times I was like,

00:35wow, look, that's kind of cool.

00:37This dude's an actor on TV.

00:39We kind of could look alike.

00:40As a matter of fact, he had one of my favorite episodes

00:42on The Cosby Show in the Gordon Gartrell shirt.

00:47That's just one of my favorite all-time episodes,

00:49and we talked about it on set,

00:50and he was telling me a couple stories about working in New York.

00:54And when I first came to that cast,

00:57he was like, hey, you know, let's go grab a bite to eat.

01:02So we went out to dinner.

01:04This is an incredible dude.

01:05I hate the fact, I hate what happened to him,

01:08but rest in peace.

01:09Let's go grab a bite.

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