Tate Donovan Remembers Matthew Perry as ‘Artistic, Humorous, Sensible Human Being’ on Mates Set

Earlier than attending the opening evening of Cirque du Soleil on the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, the 61-year-old instructed TooFab solely what it is like to look at Mates now Perry has handed away.

“That’s simply so robust, due to the entire forged, Matt Perry was form of the chief,” Donovan instructed TooFab.

“He was the funniest, and he was so sort, and he was particularly good to me. After I did my 5 episodes, he was simply so supportive, and he was the sort of actor that might watch the opposite actors’ scenes,” he defined.

The OC actor performed the position of Joshua Burgin — Rachel Inexperienced’s boyfriend in Season 4 — of the sitcom.

“He would not keep up in his dressing room. Plenty of actors, after they’re completed, they go as much as the dressing room. He would at all times be out on the ground and watching the scenes and giving concepts. He is such a inventive, humorous, sensible human being. I simply, yeah, it is simply so unhappy,” he continued.

Perry died on the age 54 in October 2023, after he was discovered unresponsive within the sizzling tub at his Los Angeles residence. In December 2023, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Workplace revealed Perry died from “the acute results of ketamine.”

Donovan revealed he “had no concept that he was going by what he was going by” till Perry “wrote his e book,” Mates, Lovers, and the Huge Horrible Factor: A Memoir.

One other former costar he spoke about on the pink carpet was fellow The OC alum Adam Brody — telling TooFab he, admittedly, has not but seen Brody’s extremely standard Netflix sequence, No one Needs This. On the present, he performs the “sizzling rabbi” Noah, a task which sparked a so-called “Adam Brody Renaissance.”

“My spouse has [seen it] however once we had been doing the OC, I used to be identical to, ‘Okay, this child goes to be an enormous star’. He is superb. He is so humorous. He is so good,” he recalled to TooFab.

Donovan and Brody starred within the teen drama sequence, which launched Brody’s profession after his transient, stint on Gilmore Women as Dave Rygalski.

“I am so blissful that he is getting an awesome present and he will be the large star that I at all times thought he was going to be,” Donovan instructed TooFab, earlier than including that he knew he was “nice” from his early days as Seth Cohen. Donovan performed Jimmy Cooper, father to Mischa Barton’s Marissa, on the sequence.

Nevertheless, not like different cult tv exhibits from the ’90s and ’00s getting revivals — like Gossip Woman, Charmed, 90210 — Donovan mentioned there may be not speak of The OC coming again.

“I do not suppose so. I imply it might be nice if there was, however, I imply solely followers discuss it,” he defined to TooFab.

“I’ve by no means heard something. I converse to Josh [Schwartz] and Stephanie [Savage] and plenty of the forged,” he added, “No one’s ever heard any rumors about it.”