Octavia Spencer Honors Sandra Bullock’s Late ‘Soulmate’ Bryan Randall

Octavia Spencer is sending like to her pal and former costar Sandra Bullock following Bryan Randall’s demise.

“My coronary heart is damaged for Sandy and Bryan,” Spencer, 53, wrote alongside an Instagram pic of the couple on Tuesday, August 8. “Sandy misplaced her soulmate and the world misplaced a gifted, good-looking, throughout good man! My prayers and condolences to their households. RIP Bryan Randall.”

Spencer — who appeared alongside Bullock, 59, within the movies A Time to Kill and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous — concluded her put up on a extra hopeful notice, writing, “In heaven, there’s a tiny little woman up there who seems an terrible lot like me bossing the Angels round. Particularly Gabriel. She’ll get him to play any tune you need to hear. Give her a kiss from me. #soulmates #ALS.”

Spencer addressed the stunning loss shortly after Bullock’s sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, penned her personal heartfelt tribute to the late photographer. “I’m satisfied that Bry has discovered the perfect fishing spot in heaven and is already casting his lure into speeding rivers teaming with salmon,” Bullock-Prado, 53, captioned a photograph of Randall by way of Instagram on Monday, August 7.

She continued: “ALS is a merciless illness however there may be some consolation in understanding he had the perfect of caretakers in my wonderful sister and the band of nurses she assembled who helped her take care of him of their residence. Relaxation in peace, Bryan.”

Information broke on Monday that Randall handed away on the age of 57 following a three-year battle with ALS. “Bryan selected early to maintain his journey with ALS personal and people of us who cared for him did our greatest to honor his request,” his household introduced in a press release.

Randall’s family members added that they’re “immensely grateful to the tireless docs who navigated the panorama of this sickness with us and to the astounding nurses who turned our roommates, usually sacrificing their very own households to be with ours.”

As a substitute of flowers, the household requested for donations to the ALS Affiliation and the Massachusetts Basic Hospital be made in honor of Randall. “At the moment we ask for privateness to grieve and to come back to phrases with the impossibility of claiming goodbye to Bryan,” the assertion concluded.

Us Weekly confirmed Bullock’s relationship with Randall in August 2015. The twosome raised Bullock’s two youngsters, Louis and Laila, whom she adopted in 2010 and 2015, respectively. Nevertheless, a supply completely informed Us in November 2020 that there was “no stress on both facet” for Bullock and Randall to tie the knot.

“[It’s] extra of an acknowledgment that they’re fortunate to have one another and that it doesn’t take a chunk of paper or formality to make sure happiness,” the insider added.

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Days earlier than Randall’s demise, a separate supply revealed that the duo took a while aside final yr.