Glenn Close recalled the friendship between Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams in the documentary ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’
Glenn Close is one of several interviewed in the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Storywhich had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival, on January 21st. The actress recalled the friendship between Reeve It is robinWilliams: “I always felt that if Chris was still around, robin would still be alive” (via People).
The actor of Dead Poets Society (1989) took his own life in 2014, aged 63. Reeve and he met at Juilliard Schoolwhere they studied together. Christopherin turn, died in 2004, at the age of 52, as a result of a cardiac arrest, nine years after suffering a spinal cord injury, caused by a horse riding accident that left him paralyzed.
In 2017, Closewho worked with Williams in The World According to Garp (1982), also stated with conviction that the actor’s fate would have been different, had he Reeve had not died before. “Their friendship, their connection, is the stuff of legend. Not only has it endured, but it has become a life force that has sustained them both,” the actress said at the annual Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, A Magical Evening.
Source: Rollingstone
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