‘Jessie’ cast shares memories of late Cameron Boyce during Zoom reunion

Debby Ryan, along with cast members from the hit Disney show “Jessie,” paid tribute on Friday to their late co-star, Cameron Boyce, during a Zoom reunion broadcast on the “Stars in the House” YouTube channel. Boyce, who played Luke Ross on the series, died in his sleep in July 2019. His cause of death was …

Debby Ryan, along with cast members from the hit Disney show “Jessie,” paid tribute on Friday to their late co-star, Cameron Boyce, during a Zoom reunion broadcast on the “Stars in the House” YouTube channel.

Boyce, who played Luke Ross on the series, died in his sleep in July 2019. His cause of death was later determined to be a seizure due to epilepsy. He was 20-years-old.

Ryan—who starred as the series lead—shared that Boyce comforted her while her mother Sandy battled breast cancer.

“My mom was battling cancer and we weren’t really vocal about it, so I would like go to chemo with her after work and then I would come back…sometimes people would be like, ‘Tired, late night?’ like making jokes, whatever and I would just be like kind of fragile but never shared about it,” Ryan, 26, recalled.

“[Boyce] had this sense,” she continued, “I remember he would just pursue to come and give me hugs. I remember one time starting to cry and being like, ‘You are like my younger brother.’ He would have sort of like this maturity and this comforting—and it was like a two-way street for the first time in a really cool way. I just will never forget that.”

Ryan added that Boyce was a great singer and dancer. “He could be casually like making a sandwich and would just sing and you’d be blown away,” she said.

Kevin Chamberlin, who played Bertram Winkle, echoed Ryan’s sentiment.

“Cameron was an amazing dancer,” he said. “There was always a surprise when they worked his dancing into the show. He would come with his crew, he had these three guys or four guys, and they would like, krump and do breakdancing stuff and it was really cool.”

“Pam [Pamela Eells], the creator of the show, texted me last night and said, ‘You have to tell them that every time they did so many takes and he would never get winded,’” Chamberlin recalled.

Peyton List, who played Boyce’s older sister on the series, remembered being tutored on set with him, while Karan Brar, who played his brother, shared that they would hang out and bond in between takes.

Skai Jackson, who also played one of Boyce’s siblings on the series, remembered meeting him at an audition for the show.

“I remember a week before I met him, I saw him on “Dancing With the Stars” and I was just thinking, ‘This boy is just so talented. He’s just so good,’” she said. “I was so excited to meet him and we just got to talking and he just treated me like one of his own just right away.”