“I bear in mind being actually grateful and grateful that he did that,” Ortega stated of Boyce, revealing that the audition was the final time she noticed him earlier than his dying.
Jenna Ortega is trying again on a “candy” second she shared with the late Cameron Boyce throughout an audition after they had been youngsters.
In a current interview with French TV outlet Canal+, per PEOPLE, the actress recalled the time Boyce stopped an audition they had been in collectively after she felt “uncomfortable” whereas they had been working a scene the place they had been presupposed to kiss.
Ortega, now 21, who, like Boyce, was a baby star, stated it was the ultimate time she noticed her good friend earlier than he handed away in 2019.
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“The final time I noticed my good friend Cameron Boyce — I might recognized him since I used to be like 11 or 12, and we had been presupposed to kiss [in an audition], and he knew me, since I used to be 11 or 12,” she recalled in the course of the interview, during which she appeared alongside her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice costars Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara. “This can be a few years later, 15, 16, got here in, we had been presupposed to be love pursuits.”
“However as a result of he clearly felt bizarre and he was a bit older, he was like — we each simply kinda checked out one another, and we had been like, ‘No, we will not do that,'” Ortega continued. “And it was so candy as a result of I used to be uncomfortable and I used to be having a tough time.”
“After which, we wished one another properly,” she stated, including, “I bear in mind being actually grateful and grateful that he did that.”
O’Hara praised Boyce as a “gentleman,” to which Ortega and Ryder voiced their settlement.
In July 2019, Boyce tragically died in his sleep after struggling a seizure brought on by his epilepsy. He was 20.
Following his dying, The Cameron Boyce Basis has raised consciousness about epilepsy and different causes championed by the younger actor.
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Whereas chatting with PEOPLE at Cam For A Trigger: A Fundraiser for The Cameron Boyce Basis To Finish Epilepsy again in June, Boyce’s mother and father, Libby and Victor Boyce, mirrored on their son’s legacy simply days after what would have been his twenty fifth birthday.
“Due to the love that Cameron receives, we nonetheless get, or we will develop as a basis. We will push the mission out, we will push the message out as a result of folks nonetheless need to maintain onto him. They do not need him to be gone,” Victor stated. “And so, in addition to us upholding his legacy, all of his followers, all of his supporters, they nonetheless preserve his legacy alive. And that is tremendous vital, clearly for a lot of causes for us.”
“For me, it is a reminder of simply what a wonderful soul we birthed, but additionally we raised,” Libby added. “And so, it is very blended. It was very bittersweet. It was a really exhausting day, however it was additionally a really stunning factor to see what he meant to so many individuals.”
Boyce’s costars and associates, equivalent to Ortega, have continued to pay tribute and honor him within the years following his dying.
