(AP) — Actor Probability Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Gen V,” has died at age 27 following a bike crash.
“On behalf of the household and his representatives, it’s with heavy hearts that we share the information of Probability Perdomo’s premature passing on account of a bike accident,” a publicist stated in a press release issued Saturday night.
The assertion stated nobody else was concerned within the crash. No particulars in regards to the crash, together with when and the place it came about, have been instantly launched.
Perdomo most lately performed Andre Anderson on the primary season of “Gen V,” the college-centric spin-off of Amazon Prime’s hit sequence “The Boys,” set in a universe the place superheroes are celebrities — and behave as badly as essentially the most infamous. Perdomo’s character was a scholar at Godolkin College, based by the sinisterly omnipresent Vought Worldwide company, the place “supes” prepare; his energy concerned the manipulation of steel.
Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Footage Tv, the makers of “Gen V,” stated the present’s household was “devastated by the sudden passing.”
“We are able to’t fairly wrap our heads round this. For these of us who knew him and labored with him, Probability was all the time charming and smiling, an enthusiastic drive of nature, an extremely proficient performer, and greater than anything, only a very form, beautiful particular person,” the producers of “Gen V” stated in a press release. “Even writing about him previously tense doesn’t make sense.”
It wasn’t instantly clear from the statements how Perdomo’s dying would have an effect on manufacturing on the present, which additionally featured Jaz Sinclair, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Shelley Conn amongst its sprawling ensemble solid.
Schwarzenegger posted a sequence of photographs of Perdomo and himself on his Instagram tales Sunday morning, saying he hoped Perdomo was “up in heaven with a cigar.”
One in all Perdomo’s most well-known roles was as Ambrose Spellman, a lead character on “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” The four-season present was a far cry from the Melissa Joan Hart-fronted “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” Created by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the Netflix present set its Archie Comics characters a city over from the titular location of Aguirre-Sacasa’s “Riverdale,” and employed a extra spooky and salacious tone than its forerunner — though among the authentic “Sabrina” actors got here calling.
Perdomo’s character was a cousin to Sabrina Spellman and a strong, pansexual warlock who specialised in necromancy and is initially beneath home arrest. He usually served as a form of voice of motive on the present, which wrapped in 2020. He starred alongside Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, Tati Gabrielle, Ross Lynch and, once more, Sinclair.
Aguirre-Sacasa posted a tribute to Perdomo on Instagram on Saturday, sharing behind-the-scenes photographs from “Sabrina.”
“Moreover being probably the most proficient younger actors I’ve ever had the privilege to work with, @chance_perdomo was, really, a lightweight. A beneficiant, humorous, open-hearted, wildly clever, and fiercely complicated and soulful human being,” he wrote.
“Oh, how I want Aunt Zelda’s phrases have been true at the moment (and maybe they’re): ‘There isn’t any true dying for witches, solely transformation,’” he continued. “Relaxation in peace, Probability. All of us cherished you so, a lot, cousin.”
Perdomo, who was Black and Latino, was born in Los Angeles and raised in England.
“I used to be all the time entering into fights till I put my power into appearing. Then my grades picked up, and I turned president of the coed union. Earlier than that, I used to be much like Ambrose being so pent up. He doesn’t know what to do along with his power as a result of he’s trapped,” Perdomo instructed them.us in 2018.
“On the identical time, he’s very open and loving. I determine with that now greater than ever, as a result of being away from household for therefore lengthy actually places issues into perspective. Irrespective of the event, if I get that FaceTime or cellphone name from mother or my brothers, I’m choosing it up straight away. It’s household first for Ambrose, and I’m the identical means,” he continued.
Perdomo additionally acted in a number of of the “After” films and is credited within the upcoming “Dangerous Man” alongside Seann William Scott and Rob Riggle.
“His ardour for the humanities and insatiable urge for food for all times was felt by all who knew him, and his heat will keep on in those that he cherished dearest,” the assertion from Perdomo’s publicist stated.