Editing Pete Postlethwaite (section)

==Health issues and death==
Postlethwaite was diagnosed with [[testicular cancer]] in 1990, and [[Inguinal orchiectomy|had his right testicle removed]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seanmartella.blogspot.com/2008/01/cancer-survivors-part-1-pete.html|title=Sean Martella's Testicular Cancer Update Blog: Cancer Survivors Part 1 – Pete Postlethwaite |publisher=Seanmartella.blogspot.com|date=17 January 2008|access-date=3 January 2011}}</ref><ref name="Observer">{{cite news|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,375560,00.html#article_continue|work=The Observer|location=London|title=Pete's progress|access-date=22 May 2010|date=1 October 2000}}</ref> A life-long smoker since he was 10,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/8237344/Pete-Postlethwaite.html|title=Pete Postlethwaite |work=The Telegraph|date=16 February 1945 |access-date=4 January 2011|location=London}}</ref> he said during a 2009 interview with ''[[Scotland on Sunday]]'', "We've got to hope the next generation will do things differently. I'm sure that in 20 years' time the kids will say: 'Can you believe that people actually used to smoke – put these funny little things in their mouths, lit them and sucked all that crap into their lungs?"<ref name="Smith">{{cite news|title=Pete Postlethwaite interview: For the love of Pete|author=Smith, Aidan|url=http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/sos-review/Pete-Postlethwaite-interview-For-the.5048415.jp|newspaper=Scotland on Sunday|date=8 March 2009|access-date=26 December 2010}}</ref>

Postlethwaite was diagnosed with [[pancreatic cancer]] in March 2009,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.moviesteve.com/film-of-the-day-02-january-the-usual-suspects-1995/ | title=Film of the Day: 2 January – the Usual Suspects (1995)| date=29 October 2023}}</ref> and continued acting for the next year and a half, showing clear signs of weight loss during his last performances.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/postlethwaites-last-take-director-recalls-dying-stars-final-film-2254170.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/postlethwaites-last-take-director-recalls-dying-stars-final-film-2254170.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Five years on: Celebrating Pete Postlethwaite's legacy|date=7 January 2017|access-date=19 June 2018}}</ref> On 2 January 2011, at the age of 64, he died at the [[Royal Shrewsbury Hospital]] in [[Shrewsbury]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/entertainment/film/daniel-day-lewis-pays-tribute-to-pete-postlethwaite-$21385579.htm|author=Lesnik, Tim|title=Daniel Day Lewis Pays Tribute to Pete Postlethwaite|date=17 February 2011|access-date=17 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304124603/http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/entertainment/film/daniel-day-lewis-pays-tribute-to-pete-postlethwaite-$21385579.htm|archive-date=4 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12106753 |title=Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite dies aged 64 |publisher=[[BBC]] |date= 3 January 2011|access-date=4 January 2011}}</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/actor-pete-postlethwaite-dies-age-64-2174887.html Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies age 64] ''[[The Independent]]'' (London) 3 January 2011</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jan/04/pete-postlethwaite-film-actor|title=Pete Postlethwaite: A face we won't forget|date=1 January 2011|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=4 January 2011|location=London|first=Peter|last=Bradshaw|author-link=Peter Bradshaw}}</ref> In his final two years, he worked on his memoir ''A Spectacle of Dust'' with writer [[Andy Richardson (writer)|Andy Richardson]], which was published in June 2011.<ref name=autobiography /><ref name="book">{{cite news|url=http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/06/20/pete-postlethwaites-book-serialised-in-the-shropshire-star/|title=Pete Postlethwaite's book serialised in the Shropshire Star|date=20 June 2011|work=[[Shropshire Star]]|access-date=13 December 2013}}</ref>