Martin Scorsese has penned an emotional tribute to the late Hollywood director Rob Reiner, describing him as a “master”.
The 78-year-old filmmaker – known for classics including This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few good Men – was found murdered alongside his wife, 70-year-old photographer Michele singer Reiner, in their Los Angeles home on December 14.
Reiner was also a celebrated comic actor and Scorsese directed him in his 2013 film The Wolf Of wall Street in which Reiner played Max Belfort, the father of Leonardo DiCaprio’s lead character Jordan Belfort.
Scorsese has written an essay for the New York times in which he outlines his relationship with Reiner, who he first met in the 1970s. “Rob Reiner was my freind, and so was Michele,” he wrote. “From now on, I’ll have to use the past tense, and that fills me with such profound sadness. But there’s no other choice.”
“Right away, I loved hanging out with Rob. We had a natural affinity for each other. He was hilarious and sometimes bitingly funny, but he was never the kind of guy who would take over the room. He had a beautiful sense of uninhibited freedom fully enjoying the life of the moment, and he had a great barrelling laugh,” he added.
Scorsese named his favourite of Reiner’s films as Misery, the 1990 adaptation of the Stephen King thriller, calling it “a very special film, beautifully acted by Kathy Bates and James Caan”, while he also d
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