Paul Reubens is being remembered by many in Hollywood, together with a few of his nearest and dearest, following his dying on Sunday from most cancers on the age of 70.

S. Epatha Merkerson labored alongside Reubens within the hit kids’s sequence Pee-Wee’s Playhouse which ran from 1986 to 1990. Merkerson, who at the moment stars within the hit Dick Wolf sequence for NBC Chicago Med, portrayed Reba the Mail Girl in 16 episodes.

“I all the time referred to as him Pablo. I’ll really miss my pal,” Merkerson instructed Deadline by way of electronic mail about Reubens on Monday. “We met at my audition for Pee-wee’s Playhouse. I didn’t know of the character…my nephew Sean instructed me who he was. Nevertheless, once I walked into the audition I used to be launched to a person named Paul Reubens in cut-off denims, with lengthy hair and a goatee. He seemed like a 60s reject! I feel Paul noticed the confusion on my face and he teased me all via the audition.”

She continued, “Once I left there I assumed, ‘I’ll by no means get that job!’ I couldn’t focus, he saved making me snort! Effectively, quick ahead to the primary day of capturing, he came visiting to me in costume and I noticed then that he knew all alongside that I had NO concept who Pee-wee Herman was. We turned quick associates. I’m gonna miss you, Pablo!”

Reubens additionally portrayed Pee-wee in numerous movie and TV initiatives together with Pee-wee’s Large Journey, Large Prime Pee-wee and Pee-wee’s Large Vacation.

Extra images of Reubens and Merkerson will be discovered beneath.