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- Channing Tatum is among a number of Hollywood actors and filmmakers who have paid tribute to actor James Ransone in the days since he died at 46
- Tatum and Ransone costarred as New York City police officers in the 2011 movie The Son of No One
- Spike Lee, Sean Baker and Jack Dylan Grazer — who played Ransone’s younger counterpart in the It movies — also shared memories of him on social media in recent days
Channing Tatum is mourning late actor James Ransone.
Tatum, 45, shared a photo of himself posing with Ransone to his Instagram Stories on Wednesday, Dec. 24. The photo was taken on Tatum’s 30th birthday in 2010. Ransone and Tatum costarred in the 2011 movie The Son of No One, which follows Tatum as a police officer in New York City in the early 2000s harboring a dark secret from his childhood.
“There ain’t words for these things. But you my friend… was one of the realest. I remember being in every conversation with you and just always being like I wonder what he’s gonna say.!!??? Lololol,” Tatum wrote in the caption to his tribute.
“I love you PJ I’ll see you on the next one my G,” he added.
The Los Angeles County Medical examiner determined on Sunday, Dec. 21 that Ransone, who appeared to go by the nickname PJ, died Dec. 19 in an apparent suicide. He was 46.
The actor was best known for portraying the character Ziggy Sobotka in the second season of HBO’s The Wire, as well as appearing in the Sinister horror movies and his role in 2019’s It: Chapter Two as Eddie Kaspbrak. Most recently, Ransone appeared in the two Black Phone movies and in one episode of the Peacock mystery series Poker Face.
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Ransone’s wife Jamie McPhee shared an emotional tribute to the actor on Monday, Dec. 22. The pair shared two children, Jack and Violet, whom McPhee wrote were “the greatest gifts” Ransone gave her. McPhee also shared a follow-up Instagram post on Dec. 23 in which she wrote that the “outpouring of love” for her husband following his death was “truly beyond anything you could ever imagine,” while directly addressing Ransone.
“In the weeks before you left us, after months of telling me near
ly every regret you’d ever carried: every mistake, every f—-up, every hurtful thing you thought you’d wrote or said, you burst into tears and said: ‘Babe, you know the most f—-up thing of all? I actually love everyone.’ Well babe, it turns out that despite all of it, everyone actually loves you too.”
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Tatum was not the only Hollywood figure to mourn Ransone’s death publicly. Actors like Jack Dylan Grazer, who portrayed the young version of Ransone’s character in It, also shared emotional tributes to Ransone in the days after his death. “I think about you every day since I met you PJ,” Grazer, 22, wrote in a since-expired Instagram Stories post.
Director Spike Lee also shared a photo with Ransone, noting that they worked together on Red Hook Summer and Inside Man. Anora director Sean Baker also wrote on Instagram that Ransone “always put a smile on my face.” The pair worked together on the movies Starlet and Tangerine.
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