Shortly after news broke that Tony Todd had passed away, Virginia Madsen, who earned an Oscar nomination for her own acting achievements, took to Instagram to share a video. The visibly emotional star shared her immediate response with her followers, expressing hers sorrow in a caption accompanying the post:

The Oscar nominee praised her late colleague in the 1992 horror film, and wrote of how Jordan Peele, the co-writer and producer of the Nia DaCosta-directed 2021 sequel, had talked about a prequel about how their characters' "love began.