Julia Louis-Dreyfus paid tribute to the late Sidney Poitier on social media following his death last week with a touching story about the first time they met.
Instagram“In the middle of the night, when I was 8 years old, I was given a white rose by the most elegant man I would ever meet,” she wrote. “I was in Tunisia traveling with my family — my father worked with the 60’s equivalent of Doctors Without Borders.”
She continued her story, writing, “At 2 in the morning, my mom woke me up and, in our nightgowns, we went to the lobby of the Tunis Hilton where they had set up a little black and white television on which at 2:56 am, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.” Over the weekend, celebrities honored the late actor on social media. Many shared touching personal messages of their appreciation for Poitier, while others recalled their own interactions with the actor over the years.from the 2011 Governors Awards presentation where she and her husband, Julius Tennon, posed alongside Poitier and his daughter, Sydney Tamiia Poitier. In the caption, she penned a heartfelt caption about the impact Poitier made on her life and career.
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