Peter Greene’s Manager Recalls Last Phone Call with Actor Days Before His Death

Peter Greene’s manager is sharing the actor’s final words to him before his death. 

Hours after the Pulp Fiction actor was found dead at age 60 in his New York City apartment on Friday, Dec. 12, his manager, Gregg Edwards, recounted their last conversation to the New York Post.

“He sounded okay … It was just a totally normal conversation,” Edwards told the outlet, noting that they’d spoken on Dec. 10 to comfort each other ahead of Greene’s surgery to remove a benign lung tumor and his own hernia surgery. “He was a little nervous about the operation going in, but he said it wasn’t super serious.”

“He was talking about that and hoping that I was going to be okay and wishing me well as I was wishing him well,” he continued. “We’re good friends. I love the guy … We were friends for over a decade.”

In the days following their ordinary call, Edwards told NBC News that a wellness check had been conducted at Greene’s home after music was heard playing in his apartment for more than 24 consecutive hours. 

“He was one of the best character actors on the planet,” Edwards told Deadline following Greene’s death. “He was a good friend who would give you the shirt off his back. He was loved and will be missed.”

Along with his iconic roles in 1994’s The Mask and Pulp Fiction, the New Jersey-born actor gave notable performances in the movies Kiss & Tell (1997), Quentin Tarantino’s The Usual Suspects (1995), Blue Streak (1999) and Training Day (2001), starring opposite Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.

“Nobody played a bad guy better than Peter,” Edwards told NBC News. “But he also had, you know, a gentle side that most people never saw, and a heart as big as gold.”

The late actor’s manager also revealed that Greene was working on two upcoming projects at the time of his death: Mascots with Mickey Rourke and From the American People: The Withdrawal of USAID.

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“Peter’s latest project was driven by his passion for raising awareness about the global deaths resulting from the administration’s dismantling of USAID,” Edwards said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “He was co-producing and served as one of the narrators for the documentary From the American People: The Withdrawal of USAID, alongside Jason Alexander and Kathleen Turner.”

Sharing a GoFundMe related to the project, Edwards added, “The best way to honor him would be to help him spread the word about what is happening.”