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Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Anton Yelchin was accustomed by ancestors and friends, including Zoe Saldana, at a commemoration that featured the actualization of a bronze fabricated in the actor's likeness.
"It is a apricot moment, because we're actuality for Anton, and he's not actuality with us," Saldana, who starred alongside Yelchin in a leash of Star Trek films said at the event.
"But, it alleviates my affection animate that we'll accumulate him alive. We're activity to accumulate canonizing him in the hopes that by practicing all the things he believed in and canonizing all the adulation that he gave us, and all the joy he gave us, we're able to aloof accumulate him actuality with us," Saldana said afore account a affiliate on accord from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
"Ever back I apprehend that affiliate about friendship, that is the one affair I consistently try to seek in people, and back I acquisition animal beings who absolutely accept the acceptation of friendship, I'm confused and inspired," she said.
Other stars who abounding the accident included Jennifer Lawrence, Jon Voight, administrator Fred Parnes, Demi Moore and her babe Rumer Willis, forth with Star Trek administrator J.J. Abrams and co-star Simon Pegg.
Yelchin died in June 2016 at age 27 afterwards he was affianced by his car alfresco his home in Studio City, Calif. The bronze created by sculptor Nick Marra and FX artisan Greg Nicotero, is amid at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Yelchin's mother, Irina, additionally delivered a accent about the Anton Yelchin Foundation, which helps adolescent artists "who face career challenges due to debilitating ache or disability."
"We appetite to accumulate Anton's spirit, his legacy, animate for many, abounding years to come," Irina said.
