Christopher Reeve‘s son Will revealed to People magazine forward of the launch of the upcoming documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” that Robin Williams was the first one that visited his father in the hospital after Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down. Williams additionally managed to make Reeve snort for the first time since the accident by pretending to be a Russian proctologist.
“Robin was dad’s best friend, and you show up for your friends,” Will mentioned, including that Williams and Reeve referred to as one another “brother.”
“Our dad and Robin had a singular bond,” Will added. “They had a friendship that someone should make a movie about, but what shone through in that was just their love and respect for each other, and that never wavered. … No one was better at showing up with love and with the right dose of humor than Robin Williams and his wife Marsha, who we call our fairy godmother. We are still so incredibly close with her.”
Williams and Reeve first met in the early Nineteen Seventies once they have been finding out theater at the Juilliard faculty. The “Superman” icon wrote in his 1998 memoir, “Still Me,” about assembly Williams for the first time.
“He wore tie-dyed shirts with tracksuit bottoms and talked a mile a minute,” Reeve wrote. “He was like an untied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released. I watched in awe as he virtually caromed off the walls of the classrooms and hallways. To say that he was ‘on’ would be a major understatement.”
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” the acclaimed documentary that premiered at Sundance and can open in theaters later this month, follows the late actor’s rise to superstardom as Superman, in addition to his struggle to discover a remedy for spinal twine accidents after he grew to become a quadriplegic following a horse driving accident. Reeve’s household participated in the making of the doc, which incorporates private archive materials.
“It is a gift. We’re so lucky,” Will’s brother Matthew Reeve advised Variety at Sundance. “We not only have his films to look at but a collection of home movies to dig up and go through and interviews on YouTube of him to pull up. Seeing things I hadn’t seen before didn’t change my perception of him but enhanced it…like some rare Australian interview done in 1977 that was uploaded and I didn’t know existed. It was pretty cool to see that and uncover a lot more material than we knew about.”
“Super/Man” will play in choose theaters on Sept. 21, adopted by an encore presentation on Reeve’s birthday, Sept. 25.
