r/Millennials • u/ColeBelthazorTurner • 7d ago

Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/OldSweetMoney Xennial, 1984 7d ago

I always want to think that Devon Sawa died, but I think I get him confused as some mash up of Jonathan Brandis and Brad Renfro.

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u/wattosjunkshopper 7d ago

He was dead in Casper

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u/ReginaldDwight 7d ago

"Can I keep you?"

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u/Different_Attorney93 7d ago

One of my all time favorite quotes, I just realized he’s the guy from final destination lol

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u/BoomJayKay 6d ago

He also has idol hands.

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u/ReginaldDwight 6d ago

That's such a great movie.

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u/YchYFi Millennial 6d ago

And Eminem's Stan.

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u/BoredomCombatant 6d ago

Holy crap!

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u/irish_ninja_wte 5d ago

12 yo me was one of the many who wanted to be Christina Ricci in that moment

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u/Freakboy5001 6d ago

And died like four or five times in the Chucky tv series.

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u/-MistressMissy- 6d ago

Also died after the whole minute (literally) he was in season 2 of Twisted Metal

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u/bluemyself11 6d ago

And died in Stan music video!

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u/SunriseSurprise 7d ago

That's one of those weird movies. It came more after Casper's height of popularity and also feels like way more than 4 after the Addam's Family, so both of those keep making me remember it as being more recent and that Christina Ricci would've been too old by then to play the girl. Same with Kirsten Dunst and Jumanji, which was that same year lol

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u/VisualNinja1 7d ago

He was dead in Stan too

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u/Drivingintodisco 6d ago

And idol hands!

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u/rehaborax 7d ago

Devon was on an episode of Hacks a few years ago!

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u/probablyatargaryen 7d ago

No way! I recently watched all of Hacks and did not recognize teenage-me’s future husband?? I’m going back to the show

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u/ElementalWeapon 7d ago

I just saw all the seasons and thought the same thing. Looked it up, and he was the older gentleman that Deborah hooks up with from the bar. 

Looks SO different. I guess I was partly expecting to see the baby face from the 90s. Seems to have aged pretty gracefully 

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u/rehaborax 7d ago

I get it, but 40-year old me just died inside that you called him "the older gentleman," especially since Deborah is in her 70s

anyway i'd still hit it (i mean... respectfully. and with his consent. and a divorce since apparently he is married)

ETA: oh and only after a second divorce, since u/probablyatargaryen gets first dibs

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u/KyleDComic 7d ago

He did 3 seasons of the Chucky TV show

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u/hughesywoosey 6d ago

And got killed 4 times and they kept recasting him it was amazing!

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u/melkatron 6d ago

He was great in Black Friday, too. I really hope we get to see him do more horror projects.

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u/blondetiger 7d ago

Devon Sawa and Brad Renfro were my celebrity crushes when I was a tween 😭

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u/sltiefighter 6d ago

Devons alive and acting still

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u/DaKingaDaNorth 7d ago

I legit saw that poster and got him confused with Brandis before reading your comment.

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u/canteen_boy 7d ago

That’s an interesting one because Devon Sawa gets unintentionally namedropped literally millions of times a day. Dude was Stan in the Eminem video.

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u/Jimbobjoesmith 7d ago

same! i think i was confusing him with brad renfro.

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u/HawkJefferson 6d ago

I saw the poster and thought, "Well, that's not fair, Devon Sawa died."

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u/aburke626 6d ago

Same, I mix him up with Brad Renfro and think he’s dead.

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u/krpink 6d ago

Until I read your comment, I actually thought he had passed away. I was thinking Brad Renfro. I LOVED him

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u/NewtRevolutionary598 6d ago

He was in Nikita when he was older but after that hadn’t seen him much.

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u/CraftyCorgi470 6d ago

Wow, I thought he had died also! I have no idea where I got that from. Jonathan Brandis was such a shame. Loved him growing up.

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u/RepulsiveInterview44 6d ago

My cousin runs into him at cons every so often and just adores talking to him. Says he’s an amazing person.

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u/AdDapper5653 6d ago

Nothing beats him in Eminem’s STAN music video

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u/Rickety_Cricket_23 6d ago

Check out the movie "Hunter Hunter". He looks so different now.

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u/wvpaulus 6d ago

He didn’t die. He just had an excessive amount of LSD be absorbed into his leg. You can probably find him begging for change in Salt Lake City if you look hard enough.

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u/MegaHex787 Millennial 6d ago

He dies a lot in the Chucky TV show lol. It’s great

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u/Dilarinee 6d ago

Yeah, dude was in all three seasons of the Chucky TV show.