American actor, Buddy Duress, has passed on.
He died at the age of 38.
His brother, Christopher Stathis, told People that he died of “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail” in November 2023.
Duress co-acted with Robert Pattinson in the 2017 crime thriller Good Time.
According to a SSENSE profile, Duress frequently had run-ins with the law and even ended up homeless in 2013.
Before making his acting debut in Josh and Benny Safdie’s Heaven Knows What, Duress told SSENSE that he had “just gotten out of Rikers [Island] … for a drug charge” when he met Josh. At that point, Duress said he was on the run because he had no intention of taking part in an in-patient drug program.
“In my head it was like, as long as I can, I’m gonna be on the run and enjoy summer, and evade the authorities,” he said at the time. “And when they catch me, I’ll take it like a man.”
He revealed to have slept in Central Park and other places while “on the run”.
“They caught me on August 1st 2014,” Buddy Duress stated. “364 days on the run.”
May his soul rest in peace!
