Posted on 03/25/2022 2:32:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Thai actor Papangkorn Lerkchaleampote, better known as Beam, died suddenly in his sleep on Wednesday (March 23). He was 25.
According to Thai media, he was found motionless in his bed by his mother, who realised he was not breathing when she tried to wake him up.
He was sent to hospital and pronounced dead after attempts to revive him failed.
According to the Bangkok Post, the Thai police found no signs of struggle in his room and no evidence of foul play.
Preliminary investigations showed that Beam had played football on Tuesday night and eaten at a food stall before returning to his condominium in Bangkok.
His body has been sent for a post-mortem.
Fans have headed to Beam's Instagram page to mourn the actor. His last post on March 20 shows him smiling in a photo.
The actor is known for starring in the Netflix drama The Stranded (2019), which revolves around a group of students who are stranded on an island after a tsunami hits, and the boy's love title Water Boyy: The Movie (2015), about a group of male swimmers.
His Water Boyy co-star Ngern Anupart Luangsodsai, 25, posted on Instagram in Thai that he was glad to have been Beam's friend and shared publicity photos of the two of them together.
Beam starred as the coach in a new Netflix series - about the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in Thailand - which is scheduled for release later in 2022.
Ain't that the truth. I've spent a lot of time in Thailand, even living there for a couple of years after I retired. Thai's are some of the friendliest, nicest people you would want to meet. It's a damn shame that a lot of people here are showing their ass, and their ignorance because people in other countries happen to have different names. God forbid when some of these clowns figure out that Thailand actually has a completely different alphabet too. Oh the manatee's.
I suspect that a lot of the ridicule was just because the boy was a young movie star/pop culture icon. If it had been someone important politically or from some other ‘respectable’ field, they might have reacted differently.
In fact, they’d be showing off all they know about the history and politics of Thailand :-)
(If you get homesick for the food, this is a great little company: https://importfood.com/ . I’m addicted to the AMAZING ELEPHANT TOM KHA SOUP!)
My son loves Thailand……he had a trip scheduled to go back March 2020….cancelled because of Covid.
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I loved it there too. Between work, vacations, and then retirement, I’ve probably spent about 3-4yrs in country. But once you get out of the touristy areas, you have to be able to speak/read the language. :-)
Love Thai food. As with any food, it’s best in country. Thailand is one place where you could spend your entire time eating nothing but street food, and have some of the best food of your life.
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