Steve Carell, Toni Collette & More ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ Cast Members Mourn Co-Star Alan Arkin

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In 2006, everyone was talking astir a hilarious small indie movie called Little Miss Sunshine. At the bosom of the movie was Alan Arkin, who played Edwin Hoover, besides known arsenic Grandpa. His quality was a foul-mouthed, heroin-snorting, and unconventional gramps to a saccharine young miss named Olive, played by Abigail Breslin. The relation won him an Oscar and a BAFTA, but much so, the emotion of the formed that worked with him.

Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear In Little Miss Sunshine (Eric Lee/20th Century Fox/Fox Searchlight/Kobal/Shutterstock)

It should travel arsenic nary astonishment past that connected June 30, pursuing the announcement of his passing, the formed came retired to accidental their farewells to the prima successful touching tributes. After Steve Carell, who played Toni Collette‘s cheery member Frank Ginsburg successful the movie, heard the news, helium remembered his archetypal acquisition gathering the actor. He told PEOPLE, “When I archetypal met Alan, helium gave maine a concern card. It said ‘Alan Arkin: Actor Director, Musician. Can thrust instrumentality shift. Owns ain tux.’ He was my idol, my friend, and I loved him.” Not lone did Steve and Alan prima successful Little Miss Sunshine together, but 7 years later, they appeared successful 2013’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone unneurotic arsenic well.

Toni besides reacted to the quality connected Instagram, arsenic she posted a clip from the movie successful her Instagram Stories and said, “Alan Arkin is gone and I americium sad. Legend. Sending truthful overmuch emotion to his family.”

Alan’s sons archetypal confirmed the quality of his decease to PEOPLE successful a associated connection that remembered their precocious father’s bequest and expressed however overmuch they volition miss him aft his passing. “Our begetter was a uniquely talented unit of nature, some arsenic an creator and a man,” the connection read. “A loving husband, father, expansive and large grandfather, helium was adored and volition beryllium profoundly missed.”

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