In the comedy series "Call Me Kat," Jordan played newly single gay man Phil, who worked at the cafe owned by the titular Kat (Mayim Bialik). Jordan was working on the show's third season when he died, and the show has since halted production, per Entertainment Weekly. The next episode, "Call Me Uncle Dad," will air on Oct. 27 as planned and include a tribute to Jordan.
"There aren't words to convey the loss we are experiencing as a cast and a Call Me Kat family. Leslie Jordan was larger than life," Bialik wrote in a statement shared on Instagram. "He was a Southern gentleman; tender, wise, naughty and hilarious. We got to know and love him at the height of his happiness and joy and it is inconceivable to imagine a world without our Leslie: the man who would spit on his contact lenses before putting them in his eyes, the man who had a story about every man in Hollywood and some of the women as well, the man who lived to make people laugh. We will be taking time to grieve and to celebrate the many gifts Leslie gave to us and to the entire world and we appreciate privacy at this time."
