[KitscherSunk]

Nah, I like crazy! I was laughing at some of the earlier posts. (in a GOOD way). You guys are funny!

[mycreativityuppedandleft]

Hello I am too disappointed we won't see Nelsan Ellis on Elementary again however looking back the way they wrote the character you always felt there was aome impending doom coming his way even before he attacked Sherlock. It was sad but it was good to see him do the right thing in the end.

And yes enjoy the crazy

[PatBat]

RIP Nelsan Ellis

Shinwell dead in Elementary and now in real life

[Little_Stewie]

Only 39 years old, that's super sad.

[mycreativityuppedandleft]

****ing hell! In total shock. So sad

[b4dark]

I still can't believe it, and so young I read it was a heart failure makes me wonder if his condition was the reason they killed him on the show ?

[b4dark]

One of the first places we shot on the pilot of True Blood was Sam Merlotte’s Bar. The kitchen Suzuki Ingerslev built in Merlotte’s had a walk in freezer & working gas burners. It remained my favourite set throughout all 7 seasons - when shooting in Louisiana many months later she took us to the actual bar she had used as inspiration. It was almost as amazing as our Merlotte’s, but not quite - They didn’t have a Lafayette. In the scene that was being shot that day, Lafayette, a male cross-dressing short order cook in the show, was expounding on his theory of men’s fear of the female anatomy.. specifically, the vagina. ‘I know every man whether straight, gay or George Mother****in’ Bush is afraid of the pussy..’ I’m not sure I have ever seen, before or since, people crowd around a monitor at video village with their hands clapped to their mouths from shock, sheer laughter and wonder as the actor playing Lafayette jiggled and shook and humped the butchers block to get his point across. it was completely original, funny, sardonic, risqué and brilliant. That was Nelsan Ellis. All of the above. I turned to Alan Ball when the scene was finished and whispered… ‘you can’t kill him!’ (Lafayette’s death at the of the first book is the cliffhanger that leads to Book 2… ) Nelsan Ellis was the only actor in the 7 years of True Blood whom Alan allowed to improvise. Actually, I’m going to take that back. It wasn’t that Alan allowed him to do it, it was more that when Nelsan inhabited the world of Lafayette, he quite literally COULDN’T STOP himself. It was like he was possessed. In actuality Nelsan was quiet, smart, thoughtful, warm and kind. A published playwright himself. I think it would be fair to say that he taught all of us that intent and courage and fearlessness and freedom are the aspects of playing make-believe that spark the corners of the room where the dark is most impenetrable; to shine a light on those corners within ourselves is the very reason we go back time and again to Movies, TV shows and Theatre. To see that spark ignited. Nelsan had that electricity in an abundance I have rarely seen. I can’t believe he’s gone. #nelsanellis

[ChakotaysLover]

I couldn't it when I saw it. He will be missed!

[mycreativityuppedandleft]

Aww man. Thanks for sharing that

[Little_Stewie]

[b4dark]

Now I wish we had seen more of him on the show .

[mycreativityuppedandleft]

Well I am glad we got to see him. He was a very talanted actor.

[b4dark]

Yes at least he got even more recognition , and he played off Jonny and Lucy very well .

[mycreativityuppedandleft]

He did

[b4dark]

I guess there's True Blood to watch.