Actors and directors who worked with Pete Postlethwaite (pictured left in The Town) offered their remembrances of the 64-year-old British actor who died Sunday in a Shropshire, England hospital after a long bout with Cancer.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, few comments for the veteran screen and stage actor matched the touching words of Postlethwaite’s In The Name Of The Father costar Daniel Day-Lewis.
“Pos was the one,” Day-Lewis said in a statement. “As students, it was him we went to see on stage time and time again. It was him we wanted to be like; wild and true; lion hearted, unselfconscious, irreverent. He was on our side, He watched out for us. We loved him and followed him like happy children, never a breath away from laughter. He shouldn’t have gone. I wish so much that he hadn’t. There’s a tendency to make lists at this time of the year. When we get to the Best of British, if Pete isn’t at the top of that list, he shouldn’t be far from it.”
Postlethwaite earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as imprisoned father Guiseppe Conlon in the 1993 drama In the Name of the Father. He worked with Steven Spielberg in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Amistad and numerous films from Brassed Off to The Usual Suspects.
Postlethwaite was last seen in Clash of the Titans, Inception and Ben Affleck’s crime drama The Town.