Director Adrian Carr, who labored with Essie on his 2005 quick movie Blood Makes Noise, additionally paid tribute to the make-up artist that day.
“How does one course of the lack of an important, vivacious, loving, mental, type, beneficiant, ageless, lovely spirit… RIP Essie,” he wrote on Fb. “Devastated… This morning Rosemary and I realized our expensive, expensive pal and colleague, Essie Cha was taken whereas she slept. Heaven’s gentle brightened and Earth’s dimmed.”
Secret Harris, who labored with Essie as a crew member on The Vampire Diaries, the 2016 film The Fundamentals of Caring and Inform Me Lies additionally shared her personal homage to her pal and colleague.
“We misplaced a positively radiant soul Essie Cha final evening,” Harris wrote on Fb March 25. “She unexpectedly handed away in her sleep. She was one of many sweetest folks to work with and a really proficient MU artist.”