Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Octavia Spencer, and more have paid tribute to the life and work of Emmy-winning 'This Is Us' actor Ron Cephas Jones: 'The world is a little less bright.'
, who played Jones' onscreen abandoned son Randall Pearson, also penned a heartfelt message to his former costar alongside a photo of them in the series.
"Life imitated art today, and one of the most wonderful people the world has ever seen is no longer with us," Brown wrote. "[Ron Cephas Jones] has passed away, and the world is a little less bright. Brother, you are loved. And you will be missed. Keep them laughing in the next phase of existence, and I'll see you when I get there."
Jones, who previously spoke of his health struggles, including a double lung transplant that required two months on and off a ventilator as he learned how to breathe, walk, and eat again,cast and crew were extremely supportive throughout his battle. "You cats held me when I was struggling and you didn't let me go," he said through tears at the time. "You've been there for a very difficult part of my life. I'm a walking miracle.
"Ron was the best of the best — on screen, on stage, and in real life," he wrote. "The coolest. The easiest hang and laugh. And my God: what an actor. I don't think I ever changed a single take of his in a cut… because everything he did was perfect." He added that he first met Jones when the series began, "a magical time when it felt like we were all being shot out of a cannon." But throughout the chaos of the show's rising popularity, Fogelman wrote, Jones was "always steady, always grateful — even as the madness swirled around us.", shared a picture of the duo laughing and wrote, "I cannot believe he is gone! It doesn't seem possible. He was such a generous and compassionate heart.
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