Phylicia Rashad, who performed the indelible matriarch Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” launched the in memorium efficiency on the 2025 Emmys and used the chance to say goodbye to her onscreen son, Theo Huxtable actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
“He was a beloved teenager in an iconic tv sequence who the world watched develop into manhood,” she mentioned. “Like all our pals and colleagues who transitioned this previous 12 months, Malcolm-Jamal Warner stays in our hearts. Tonight, as is custom on the Emmys, we bear in mind them not only for their immense expertise, but in addition for the best way the made us imagine in one thing greater, one of the best that’s inside us. Although they could not longer be right here with us, we will all smile, figuring out their influence will stay, figuring out that their lasting impressions will proceed to dwell on by story, figuring out that they touched our lives. And whether or not you grew up watching them, or have simply now found their brilliance, their mild stays within the very cloth of our trade.”
Warner died in July at 54 years outdated because of an unintentional drowning whereas on trip together with his household in Costa Rica.
Rashad and Warner have been co-stars on “The Cosby Present” for the complete eight season run. Warner additionally visitor starred as Theo on the primary two seasons of the “Cosby Present” spin-off “A Totally different World.”
On Sept. 12, Tenisha Warner paid tribute to her late husband on Instagram, writing, “Thanks for holding us in a lot love throughout this tender time. Tomorrow marks our anniversary — and my coronary heart is huge open. For the primary time, I’m sharing a glimpse of the love that started all of it. I can nonetheless hear my husband’s chuckle, nonetheless really feel the best way he made room for each a part of me — each tear, each dream.”
She additionally introduced plans for a brand new undertaking to pay tribute to his legacy, writing, “In the present day, in his honor, my daughter and I are launching River & Ember and formally opening The Warner Household Basis. Collectively we feature the legacy my husband and I started— one which nurtures youngsters’s inside mild and offers younger artists the liberty to create outdoors the traces. That is love, Nonetheless shifting. Nonetheless making. Nonetheless carrying us ahead.”
