‘The Wire’ star Lance Reddick useless at 60

Lance Reddick, the lanky, stalwart character actor whose no-nonsense demeanor was on full show within the John Wick franchise reverse Keanu Reeves and acclaimed sequence like The Wire, Oz and Misplaced, died on Friday. Mia Hansen, the actor’s consultant at Portait PR, advised Yahoo that Reddick “handed away immediately of pure causes.”

“Lance will probably be enormously missed,” mentioned Hansen, who requested privateness for the actor’s surviving members of the family, spouse Stephanie and kids Yvonne Nicole and Christopher.

Reddick was noticeably absent from the John Wick: Chapter 4 premiere in New York Metropolis on Wednesday for causes not instantly made clear. Nonetheless the actor, who performs Charon, was doing press and took part in a number of interviews this week. The movie is about to be launched March 24.

In a joint assertion, franchise star Reeves and Chapter 4 director Chad Stahelski introduced they have been dedicating the sequel to their “beloved buddy” Reddick.

“We’re deeply saddened and heartbroken on the lack of our beloved buddy and colleague Lance Reddick. He was the consummate skilled and a pleasure to work with,” the duo mentioned, sending prayers to Reddick’s household. “We dedicate the movie to his loving reminiscence. We’ll miss him dearly.”

Reddick’s breakout position got here in 2000 on HBO’s jail drama Oz, enjoying ill-fated undercover cop Johnny Basil in a significant Season 4 story arc. Reddick shortly established himself as a go-to TV presence in dozens of top-tier exhibits, together with Legislation & Order: SVU, Misplaced and CSI: Miami. He starred as Lt. Cedric Daniels on all 5 seasons of The Wire and performed Phillip Broyles on Fringe from 2008 to 2013. Extra just lately he appeared in all seasons of Prime TV’s Bosch as Irvin Irving, co-starred in Netflix’s 2022 Resident Evil sequence and portrayed Zeus within the upcoming Disney+ sequence Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Along with the 4 John Wick movies, Reddick had been set to star reverse Ana de Armas within the green-lit spinoff, Ballerina. His different movie credit in Godzilla vs. Kong and White Home Down. He stars in Kenya Barris and Doug Corridor’s remake of White Males Cannot Bounce with rapper Jack Harlow, out later this yr.

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Wendell Pierce, who starred alongside Reddick on The Wire, referred to as his buddy “the epitome of sophistication” and mentioned the actor’s demise is an “surprising sharp painful grief for our inventive household.”

Wire creator David Simon launched an announcement calling Reddick “a consummate skilled, a faithful collaborator, a beautiful soul and a buddy. That is simply gutting and means, means, means too quickly for any of us who knew and liked him to ponder.”

Fellow Wire star Isiah Whitlock Jr. referred to as information of Reddick’s demise “actually hearbreaking.”

Kirk Acevedo, who labored on Oz and Fringe with Reddick, recalled their final dialog.

Fellow actors Ben Stiller and Joe Manganiello, together with director and co-head of DC Studios James Gunn and different trade veterans additionally paid tribute to Reddick.