Lou Diamond Phillips remembers Malcolm-Jamal Warner as a friend

Lou Diamond Phillips is remembered Malcolm-Jamal Warner Like a dear friend … telling us that the late ‘Cosby Show’ star was a friendly and sweet man.

We have Lou on Thursday in New York City and our photo asked him about Ozzy OsbourneDeath … and after the prizes of the late black Sabbath rocker because he was at the media intersection, he unveiled his friendship with Malcolm-Jamal.

Lou says that he and MJW used to be around … We told us that the man “just generated love” and characterized his death as a big shock and a huge loss.

Nobody really knew that these two friends were a bit logical … They were both enormously in the 80s … with Malcolm-Jamal in the lead at ‘The Cosby Show’ and Lou with in large films such as ‘Young Guns’, ‘Stand and Lever’ and ‘La Bamba’.

TMZ broke the story … Malcolm-Jamal died Sunday In Costa Rica, drowned on a popular beach after he was swept under water by a powerful ripij.