Martin Scorsese remembers his late friend Rob Reiner and his wife Michele after their tragic deaths.
The Oscar-winning director opened up about the brutal murder of Rob and Michele in a new guest essay The New York Timesand wrote: “What happened to Rob and Michele is an obscenity, an abyss in lived reality.”
“Rob Reiner was my friend, and so was Michele. From now on, I will have to use the past tense, and that fills me with such deep sadness,” Scorsese began his essay.
Scorsese noted that he first met Rob and his ex-wife Penny Marshall at comedian George Memmoli’s gatherings in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.
“I immediately loved hanging out with Rob,” wrote the Killers of the Flower Moon director. “We had a natural affinity for each other. He was hilarious and sometimes bitingly funny, but he was never the kind of man who would take over the room. He had a wonderful sense of uninhibited freedom, enjoyed living the moment to the fullest, and he had a great laugh.”
Scorsese has revealed this Wrong is his favorite Rob Reiner film, acclaimed This is a spinal tapand remembered a “beautiful” Wolf of Wall Street scene in which Rob played a “loving father, bewildered by his son.”
“Now it breaks my heart to even think of the tenderness of Rob’s performance in this and other scenes,” he lamented.
The filmmaker concluded his essay with a heartbreaking wish. He wrote, “One day I’ll be at a dinner party or a party and I’ll be sitting next to Rob, and I’ll hear his laugh and see his blissful face and laugh at his stories and enjoy his natural comic timing and feel lucky to have him as a friend again.”
It is pertinent to mention that Rob and Michele were found dead in their Los Angeles home on December 14. Their son Nick has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with their deaths.
