- Duress died in November 2023, his brother Christopher Stathis told People on Tuesday.
- The actor was best known for his roles in Good Times and Heaven Knows What.
- He is survived by his mother Jo-Anne and younger brother Christopher.
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Good Times and Heaven Knows What actor Buddy Duress has died at age 38.
Duress, who co-starred with Twilight star Robert Pattinson in Good Times, died in November 2023 due to “cardiac arrest due to a cocktail of drugs,” said his brother, Christopher Stathis. People.
He is survived by his mother Jo-Anne and younger brother Christopher.
Buddy was born Michael C. Stathis in Queens, New York, in May 1985.
He made his acting debut in the 2014 Josh and Benny Safdie film Heaven Knows What.
Good Times and Heaven Knows What actor Buddy Duress has died at age 38; seen in 2017
He later teamed up with the Safdie brothers again in the 2017 film Good Time, where he played a drug dealer who teams up with Pattinson’s character.
He also appeared in several other film projects, including Person to Person, Funny Pages, and Beware of Dog.
He has two more projects scheduled to be released later this year according to his IMDb page: Calaveras y Masas State Lottery.
In a 2017 interview with SenseDuress shared that she met Josh through a mutual friend in 2013, after he was released from Rikers Island in New York City on drug charges.
At the time, Duress was on the run after skipping a drug inpatient program.
He landed the role in Heaven Knows What, but was then captured by the police and taken back to Rikers Island after the film wrapped.
He was still in prison when the film premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2014.
‘You know, I still remember it. If he had gone on that show, he wouldn’t have been on God knows what and he probably wouldn’t be an actor right now. That is the pure truth. “I wouldn’t do it,” he told the publication.
Duress, who co-starred with Twilight star Robert Pattinson (L) in Good Times, died in November 2023 due to “cardiac arrest due to a cocktail of drugs,” his brother, Christopher Stathis, told People.
After his release, the filmmakers asked him to write a diary about his time in prison, later adapting it into the script for Good Time, according to the Los Angeles Times.