Malcom-Jamal Warner says Bill Cosby has “tarnished” the Cosby Show legacy · Newswire · The A.V. Club, Although Malcom-Jamal Warner has gone on to a able-bodied career in TV and film—he afresh had a bedfellow arc on the Closer aftereffect Major Crimes, and will play OJ Simpson’s pal A.C .Cowlings in American Crime Story next year—there’s an absolute bearing to whom he’ll consistently be Theo Huxtable. That’s an ability that accept to assume apricot in hindsight, accustomed aggregate we’ve abstruse about Warner’s TV dad Bill Cosby over the accomplished year or so.
Now, in an account with The Associated Press, Warner has bidding his thoughts about Cosby’s abatement from adroitness and the aftereffect it has had on the show’s legacy. “The bequest can’t advice but be tarnished,” he says, apparently apropos to how abnormally the adventure about Dr. Huxtable’s amative BBQ booze reads now that added than 40 women accept accused Cosby of drugging and raping them. “My better affair is if it comes to images of humans of blush on television and film, no amount what ... abrogating stereotypes of humans of color, we’ve consistently had The Cosby Appearance to authority up adjoin that,” Warner adds. “And the actuality that we no best accept that, that’s the affair that saddens me the a lot of because in a few ancestors the Huxtables will accept been just a bogie tale.”
Warner aswell says in the account that, clashing his TV affinity Keshia Knight Pulliam, he has been in blow with Cosby aback all this horribleness went down, but wouldn’t animadversion on what they talked about. (Discussion of sweaters followed by awkward silence, maybe?) Warner is the third Cosby Appearance alum to allocution about the allegations, although he is demography a dimmer appearance than Pulliam—who said “you can’t yield aback the impact” of the appearance in an account beforehand this week—and Phylicia Rashad, who said the accusations adjoin Cosby were allotment of a cabal to accumulate him off TV aback in January.
Now, in an account with The Associated Press, Warner has bidding his thoughts about Cosby’s abatement from adroitness and the aftereffect it has had on the show’s legacy. “The bequest can’t advice but be tarnished,” he says, apparently apropos to how abnormally the adventure about Dr. Huxtable’s amative BBQ booze reads now that added than 40 women accept accused Cosby of drugging and raping them. “My better affair is if it comes to images of humans of blush on television and film, no amount what ... abrogating stereotypes of humans of color, we’ve consistently had The Cosby Appearance to authority up adjoin that,” Warner adds. “And the actuality that we no best accept that, that’s the affair that saddens me the a lot of because in a few ancestors the Huxtables will accept been just a bogie tale.”
Warner aswell says in the account that, clashing his TV affinity Keshia Knight Pulliam, he has been in blow with Cosby aback all this horribleness went down, but wouldn’t animadversion on what they talked about. (Discussion of sweaters followed by awkward silence, maybe?) Warner is the third Cosby Appearance alum to allocution about the allegations, although he is demography a dimmer appearance than Pulliam—who said “you can’t yield aback the impact” of the appearance in an account beforehand this week—and Phylicia Rashad, who said the accusations adjoin Cosby were allotment of a cabal to accumulate him off TV aback in January.
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