diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/NativeAnimation/Nodes/RCTInterpolationAnimatedNode.mm b/packages/react-native/Libraries/NativeAnimation/Nodes/RCTInterpolationAnimatedNode.mm
index 78ee190dee0..45846b8471c 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/NativeAnimation/Nodes/RCTInterpolationAnimatedNode.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/NativeAnimation/Nodes/RCTInterpolationAnimatedNode.mm
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@
 #import <React/RCTAnimationUtils.h>
 #import <React/RCTConvert.h>
 
-static NSRegularExpression *regex;
-
 typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, RCTInterpolationOutputType) {
   RCTInterpolationOutputNumber,
   RCTInterpolationOutputColor,